[pkg-wpa-devel] Another note on wpa_gui and the new configuration scheme

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:52:19PM +0200, Felix Homann wrote:
> Within the new configuration scheme you have to ifup the interface in order to 
> be able to use wpa_gui at all. That feels very strange to me! 

I don't feel this strange. wpa_gui is a gui for talking to an running
instance of wpasupplicant. It is in some ways a graphical equivalent to wpa_cli.

Note that it doesn't handle any handling with the configuration file
itself. It just uses the wpasupplicant control interface to tell
wpasupplicant to save the current configuration.

When looking at the source code, I think it is meant as another example
how depending applications like network manager can talk to
wpasupplicant, and edit/update the configuration file.

> If you haven't already put the right settings in /etc/network/interfaces for 
> that AP you're going to have some trouble, aren't you? (For DHCP it works 
> with the dhclient script, though.)

I don't think so. You don't expect wpa_cli to do anything useful without
a running wpasupplicant instance as well.

Gruesse,
	Reinhard