Re: WPA status 2005-12-22

[Kay Sievers <kay sievers vrfy org>]

On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 05:03:53AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 04:11:33AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Quick update on WPA stuff...
> 
> ...
> 
> > What's left to be done?
> > -----------------------
> 
> ...
> 
> > o Create a supplicant_manager object that controls invocations of
> >     wpa_supplicant
> >     o Write out correct wpa_supplicant config file and ask the
> >         NMAPSecurity objects to write out their security information
> >     o Connect to wpa_supplicant's control socket to monitor association
> >         status
> 
> Here is a simple wrapper around wpa_supplicant that starts the daemon
> and can request an interface to be handled by the wpa_supplicant daemon.
> It connects an GIOChannel to the socket and receives "connected/disconnected"
> messages. At the moment it's a simple standalone program, which runs as:
>   $ ./wpa_supplicant_wrapper <essid> <passphrase>
> 
> and just prints "DOWN", "UP" lines to stdout at state changes.
> 
> I does not write a config file, all communication is done via the socket
> interface. It only accepts pre shared keys at the moment. The wpa_ctrl.[ch]
> files are copied from the wpa_supplicant sources.
> 
> Hope this is useful for integration into NM itself.

Hmm, seems that the mail with the attached files does no make it to the
list. Here is a copy:
  http://ehlo.org/~kay/wpa/

Thanks,
Kay