Hi, I'm looking to create or cobble together functionality that automates network connections as a user roams around with a laptop. The idea is to respond to changing network availability: wifi network is known, so connect, or cable was plugged in, or connect for the first time and remember, etc).
On Linux, this is provided by program called NetworkManager. I'm pretty sure it's are Linux-specific and, anyway, it depends on DBus (a separate messaging system). I was hoping to create something a little more self contained. I did explore a couple of avenues. One was the "wiconfig" script mentioned on Undeadly a while back. This didn't connect, seemingly because it tried to use WEP, not WPA. I didn't want to debug a shell script to find out why. Another possibility is using ifstated. However it looks like WiFi interfaces are always "up", even in the "no network" state, so it's unclear whether the required state transitions would actually happen But I haven't verified that, so I can't dismiss this as a solution. An argument could be made that this is of marginal utilty. How hard is it to use ifconfig, anyway? But I figured it might be an interesting exercise and may be a nice convenience. Any advice, or discussion would be appreciated. Chuck
