Am Sonntag, 2. April 2006 20:33 schrieb Reinhard Tartler: > I have no problems with shipping the old init script (or an improved > one) in /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/examples. The local administrator > would have to install and activate it himself.
Local administrators can then write their own script. That's no problem. But administrators sometimes want to avoid this, since they are lazy :-) > I'm not happy in installing it again in /etc/init.d per default. IMO > using wpasupplicant as system daemon is a highly nontrivial setup, which Nontrivial? A typical user writes the SSID and PSK to the config file and that's all. And add the wireless interface to ifplugd's configuration like all wired interfaces. Not nontrivial in my opinion. > requires a lot of tweaks and integration into the specific package > combimation used on the target system, and there is little we can do on > the packaging site to provide a suitable default configuration. No default configuration. Just /etc/default/wpasupplicant with the following line: # you must have a valid configuration when activating this STANDALONE=yes The default can be the new approach. regards, Jörg
