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...@gmail.com <ibid...@gmail.com> 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 > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
