[pkg-wpa-devel] http://wiki.debian.org/WPA - Some notes

[Felix Homann]

On Monday 01 May 2006 09:38, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I've written up some information on http://wiki.debian.org/WPA,
> containing status about the package, links to alioth mailing list and
> such.

Great!


Here are some notes (since the first page is immutable I can't apply these 
changes by myself):

Why
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Typo: We *no onger* bother ...


Use it as system service and make ifplugd to "activate the interface"
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Typo: We *havn't* 

Note on "We havn't found any real documentation why this works at all":

ifplugd is designed to work this way. Please, 
read /usr/share/doc/ifplugd/README.gz:

" Support for wireless networking. Whenever an association to an AP is 
detected the network is configured."

Upgrade Issues
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"[...]because this breaks some local hacks these users where using."

If a user has been using wpa_supplicant as packaged the upgrade breaks his 
working system unless he has *not* used the init script and has *not* 
used /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. This has got nothing to do with local hacks! 

"or use a package which uses wpasupplicant to provide such a system service."

Does such a package exist?

wpasupplicant in Debian testing/unstable (Codename "etch")
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Typo: The debian *package package* provides

Kind regards,

Felix