[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#606051: wpasupplicant: dbus should be correctly discovered and used by 'wpa_cli' and 'wpa_gui'

[Etienne URBAH]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.6.10-2
Severity: important

The setup described in Message #15 of Debian Bug #572143 at 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572143#15 permits that 
the 'wpa_supplicant' daemon works correctly when started by 
'NetworkManager' using 'dbus'.

But even with this setup, 'wpa_cli' and 'wpa_gui' do NOT discover that 
the 'wpa_supplicant' daemon is managed through 'dbus', and both fail.

As workaround, inside the 'dbus' service file for 'wpa_supplicant', I 
have hardcoded :
'Exec=/sbin/wpa_supplicant  -u  -s  -i eth0  -D wext  -c 
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'

-  'wpa_cli' then sometimes correctly connects to 'wpa_supplicant', but 
my hardcoding will fail as soon as 'udev' will associate my wireless 
chip to anything else than 'eth0'.

-  'wpa_gui' still does NOT connect at all to 'wpa_supplicant'.

Therefore, please improve the 'wpa_cli' and 'wpa_gui' clients so that 
both automatically discover and use 'dbus' to connect to the 
'wpa_supplicant' daemon.

If applicable, please document precisely the '-u' and '-s' options in 
the man pages of 'wpa_cli' and 'wpa_gui'.

Thank you in advance for your work.

Etienne URBAH



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-7   Embedded GNU C Library: 
Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.24-3   simple interprocess 
messaging syst
ii  libnl1                        1.1-6      library for dealing with 
netlink s
ii  libpcsclite1                  1.5.5-3    Middleware to access a 
smart card
ii  libreadline6                  6.1-3      GNU readline and history 
libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8o-3   SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 
init scrip

wpasupplicant recommends no packages.

Versions of packages wpasupplicant suggests:
pn  libengine-pkcs11-openssl      <none>     (no description available)
ii  wpagui                        0.6.10-2   graphical user interface 
for wpa_s

-- no debconf information