On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:39:37 +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote: > > If the wifi task installs wicd, then copying > > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf is useless since wicd uses > > its own configuration files. Or did you mean something else? > Ah. I have no idea and have only presumed the two to be somehow compatible. > Good that I > asked :)
:) > My understanding was that we have kind of agreed that wicd is the way to go > for > a default wifi installation. At least nobody has spoken up yet with a better proposal. > Under "configuration" we currently have this code: > > if [ -f "$WPA_SUPPLICANT_CONF" ]; then > echo " * Installing wpasupplicant, wireless-tools and udhcpc" > chroot "$INST_DIR" apt-get $APT_OPTIONS install wpasupplicant > wireless-tools udhcpc > echo " * $WPA_SUPPLICANT_CONF copied from this machine" > cat > "$INST_DIR$WPA_SUPPLICANT_CONF" <$WPA_SUPPLICANT_CONF > fi > > If I understood your comment right, then the above should not be installed if > wicd is > installed, right? Yup. > I am somewhat irritated, though, since wicd depends on wireless-tools, > wpasupplicant and "dhcpd | dhcp3-client | pump". So, wpasupplicant is > installed upon an > otherwise innocent install of wicd. So, the copying would make sense after > all?!? No, wicd doesn't use /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf but has its own configuration under /etc/wicd, and AFAICS it creates it's own wpa-supplicant files on the fly from them. Not that /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf really hurts, it's just not used by wicd. > And since udhcpc is providing dhcp3-client, I should make sure to install > that rather than > something else, right? I'd hence suggest to install wpasupplicant > wireless-tools udhcpc > for the task WIFI and leave the "if" only for the copying of the > wpa_supplicant > configuration. I think I only installed wicd, the rest got pulled in and that's all I need. I have no opinion wrt udhcpc vs. dhcp3-client; I just checked on my Freerunner: deanna:~# dpkg -l *dhcp* [..] +++-=====================-=====================-========================================================== un dhcp-client <none> (no description available) ii dhcp3-client 3.1.1-6 DHCP client ii dhcp3-common 3.1.1-6 common files used by all the dhcp3* packages un dhcpcd <none> (no description available) pn udhcpc <none> (no description available) > The fyp folks also install wicd, and they add wifi-radar on top. Should that > be mimmicked? I never used wifi-radar but AFAIK it's similar to wicd. Installing both sounds a bit like installing openoffice.org and then abiword additionally. Well, maybe wifi-radar is nicer/smaller/... than wicd but someone needs to test it ... Ah, one difference is: "You need to have root access to use this program." (wifi-radar's description), so it's probably not that useful if we change the default user from root to something else. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Home: http://info.comodo.priv.at/{,blog/} / GPG Key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT, SPI Inc., fellow of FSFE | http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Dire Straits: Water Of Love
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