Le 14/05/2016 21:27, [email protected] a écrit :
Am Sat, 14 May 2016 17:07:06 +0000
schrieb Didier Kryn <[email protected]>:
You have mostly two ways to deal with wifi.
1) you select the station and enter the key everytime you
connect. 2) your system remembers the ssid's and keys of all stations
you need and it connects you automatically - this is called
wifi-roaming.
I think wicd matches the first case only.
AFAIU, ceni allows you to either work according to the first
method or make the basic configuration of wpa_supplicant for the
second method, something you can also do with a text editor. There
are many howtos on the web, search for the following 3 keywords
"wifi" "roaming" "wpa_supplicant".
wpa_supplicant may or may not invoke the dhcp client, depending
on what it reads in /etc/network/interfaces.
Hope this helps.
Didier
First of all merci!
If it is about roaming (i.e. memorizing the ssids whereto the computer
was connected, if i'm getting you right), then, wicd does that job.
Yes, you're getting me right. Thanks for resolving my uncertainty
about wicd :-)
If you configure wpa_supplicant with ceni (which also does the job for
wired connections, btw) then, the wifi connection on the next boot is
started *BEFORE* the login screen.
In wifi roaming mode, once configured,
wpa_supplicant+ifup[+dhclient] do it all. I gave a try to ceni and it
offered me two options: connect to an available station or rewrite my
wpa_supplicant.conf to prepare roaming. I didn't need the first and
didn't take the risk to mess my working config with the second.
I'll check a bit and see, how in the end i'll configure the
connections. Principally, to avoid wicd from starting automatically
i'll have to pull out the wicd script out of /etc/init.d/ , correct?
BUT: should there be a service "wpa_supplicant" in /etc/init.d/ ?
wpa_supplicant is meant to be started by ifup and stopped by
ifdown; it keeps running for the duration of the connection. The whole
machinery is configured in the interfaces file and uses the ifupdown
scripts. Have a look to the howtos to understand how it works; it gives
you a great flexibility by allowing you to provide fixed IP addresses
for some SSIDs and DHCP for others.
I personally use to write by hand the initial wpa_supplicant.conf
(or copy it from another laptop) and then use wpa_gui to enter a new
SSID/password. I hoped ceni was some curses replacement for wpa_gui, but
I'm afraid it's something else. Until someone gives it a full try and
explains in details what it does.
Didier
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