Hi all,
By automatic connections I understood netman using the available
essids for which it knows the password to connect. This means, it does
not attempt to connect if no essid file is found under
/etc/network/wifi.
Edward
On 13/09/2015, ibid.ag@??? <ibid.ag@???> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 02:35:43PM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As I am approaching the final stages of Pre-Alpha development, I would
>> like to ask how netman should behave when 'automatic connections' are
>> enabled.
>
>> Needless to state the obvious, here, we are not doing Microsoft, but
>> rather, we want to keep netman as simple as it can be. Yes, there are
>> opinions contrary to what I am doing, but the world is such, that we
>> cannot please everyone.
>>
>> At the moment, I am thinking about how netman should behave when
>> automatic searching and connecting to wifi hotspots is enabled. I
>> already have an idea how this can be achieved, but I want to use the
>> least of processing time possible, knowing from experience how network
>> managers that think for themselves can be made to almost clog the
>> system.
>
> May I suggest that you step back and take a look at the big picture?
>
> As I see it, the big picture is more-or-less this:
>
> -netman is a gui to configure and manage ifup, which uses wpa_supplicant
> plugins to connect to specific pre-configured wireless interfaces.
>
> -ifup is a one-shot tool to configure network interfaces, featuring
> a great capacity for plugins. It cannot handle wireless itself,
> but there is a wpa_supplicant plugin.
>
> -wpa_supplicant is a daemon designed to autoconnect to wireless
> networks, supporting roaming and just about every type of wireless
> network.
>
> -the wpa_supplicant plugins are scripts that allow "ifup wlan0"
> to configure wlan0 in EITHER of two ways:
> (a) start wpa_supplicant with no config and add a single network:
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> wpa-ssid "foo"
> wpa-psk "topsecretpassword"
> (b) start wpa_supplicant with a pre-defined config containing all
> the networks, and configure the interface on connection:
> iface wlan0 inet manual
> wpa-roam "/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf"
>
> iface default inet dhcp
>
>
> It's seemed rather odd to me that netman ignores wpa-roam.
>
> HTH,
> Isaac Dunham
>
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