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

[Reinhard Tartler]

Am Samstag, den 15.04.2006, 18:34 +0200 schrieb Felix Homann:
> > It doesn't have any (configuration) file handling at all! 
> 
> You can change the configuration file using wpa_gui. I would call that 
> handling of the configuration file. Whatever it uses in the background to do 
> that doesn't count to me. 
> 
> > It just 
> > controls a running wpasupplicant instance. Everything which can be done
> > with wpa_gui you can do with wpa_cli as well.
> 
> Please, tell me how to open the NetworkConfig form in wpa_cli. 

See the commands list_networks and get_network

> Tell me how to 
> open the scan results window, etc. etc.

Use the command scan_results. The output is very similar to wpa_gui,
because they use the same mechanism: the control interface and nothing
else. Note that you cannot use the ap_scan command, because I backported
this feature only to wpa_cli, and not to wpa_gui.

> wpasupplicant does the  handling of the configuration file.
> Sure, would you even say that  vi cannot write a file because actually it's 
> the kernel writing it on the disk?

Do you want to achieve anything in particular or do you just bitch
around for the sake of it? How about becoming productive and help to
implement a generic roaming solution on the basis of wpasupplicant?

regards,

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