On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Charles Musser <cmus...@sonic.net> wrote: > 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.
It should have tried WEP first and, if that failed, WPA. ifconfig in -current can now discern WEP or WPA so this can readily be improved. > 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. Have you taken a look at beck@'s wifinwid at http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20130208141628? FWIW, there's a GSoC for a "NetworkManager" at http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/gsoc2014.html, but I don't know it's gotten any love.
