Re: Braindump on wpa_supplicant
- From: Olivier Blin <oblin mandriva com>
- To: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
- Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Braindump on wpa_supplicant
- Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:34:26 +0200
Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:
> Well, I'm talking about the whole thing, where we get to modify wpa_supplicant
> for slave mode and what not as well. We don't want to simply let wpa_supplicant
> loose, since _NetworkManager_ is the program that's determining which network to
> connect to, what password/passphrase/key to use, what certificates
> to use, etc.
This should be possible with current wpa_supplicant, since you can
restrain it on a specific network ID.
> And I'm not going to write out a config file for wpa_supplicant, that's just
> bogus. This stuff needs to be tightly integrated, not writing config files for
> stuff all over the place. The only reason we do that for
> named/caching-nameserver is because it wasn't dbus-enabled yet at the time we
> did the VPN stuff (it has since been made dbus-aware).
So, will you try to make wpa_supplicant dbus-aware?
The current socket interface is quite fine, but only one program can
listen to events.
--
Olivier Blin
Mandriva
Mandrakesoft becomes Mandriva
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