[pkg-wpa-devel] Does "managed mode" work together with wpa_gui?

[Felix Homann]

On Saturday 15 April 2006 00:49, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > If they are not working together I would suggest not to regard "managed
> > mode" as the default.
>
> Why not?

wpagui is a great tool for easily setting up new configurations. I would 
suggest to use this as default (if you do insist on not using an init 
script):

/etc/network/interfaces
==============
iface wlan inet manual
       wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
       wpa-action /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpacli-action-dhclient

/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
========================
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wpasupplicant
update_config=1
ap_scan=1

With this setting every user in the wpasupplicant group can use wpagui to add, 
edit and scan for new networks very easily using a GUI. It's the easiest way 
to set it up for new users (if they have X running).

> wpagui is a separate package, and it is not obvious to me how 
> you connect a graphical front-end to 'managed mode'.

Exactly.

Regards,

Felix