On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 09:25 +0100, Stroller wrote: > What's the difference between wpa_supplicant & wireless-tools, then?
Both do the same job - provide the tools to configure your wireless card. wpa_supplicant is a daemon that runs in the background and when it associates with an AP in your list it applies the pre-defined security settings. Any current wireless security on SOHO boxes is supported. wireless-tools is a set of programs that configure your card per your settings and call it a day. Gentoo baselayout does some rudimentry scanning and AP selection, so it's not that bad. Only WEP security is supported. > Could ipw2200 (theoretically, as a virtual, or at some point in the > future) depend upon wpa_supplicant instead? That would be upto the package maintainers to decide, but I can't think of any reason why not. Roy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
