[pkg-wpa-devel] Non-roaming usage of the daemon: Radio kill switch

[Felix Homann]

On Friday 07 April 2006 18:40, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>
> I assume that you are talking about ifupdown. 

Yes, I am.

> You are right, this 
> itself ist a real roaming solution yet. So will need an action script.
> If all your locations provide dhcp, and you don't need any further
> configuration there, you can use the example action script.
>
> For more advanced roaming configurations, you could easily integrate
> whereami or other scripts there.
>
> IOW: I don't understand your problem.
>

OK, let me clarify:

Using the daemon together with ifupdown I can press the WLAN-button on my 
notebook to switch the wlan interface on and off. When I switch the radio on, 
i.e. when I press the WLAN-button,  the notebook connects to the AP.

This simply doesn't work without the daemon (at least I don't know how), since 
after switching the radio off wpa_supplicant stops. Switching the radio on 
again wpa_supplicant won't start again, ifupdown can't see a connection to 
the AP and hence the interface won't get up. Instead I have to manually ifup 
the interface.

Regards,

Felix