Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:14:09 -0700 From: "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org> To: "'Brooks Davis'" <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Is anyone working on /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant? Message-ID: <001801c572e2$3faaa310$0b2a15ac@SMILEY> In-Reply-To: <20050616182056.GF21733@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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From: Brooks Davis [mailto:brooks@one-eyed-alien.net]=20 > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:51:44AM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > Is anyone working on the proposed /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant script > > (as mentioned in /etc/network.subr? If not, I'll get started on > > one. >=20 > I'm planning to work on it, but if I don't do it my tomarrow it will > have to wait for the week of the 27th as I will be without electronic > devices next Sunday-Friday. Was that a yes or a no? :) > One could argue though that it actually has to be more complicated > than the dhclient script because in some really weird configurations > you might not have /usr mounted when netif is run and as a result > you need to support starting supplicants after mountcritremote. In > normal configurations, the script should see the already started > wpa_supplicants and not do anything when it is run. >=20 > I can't actually think of a good reason to have a machine with a > remote /usr be a wireless station, but I'm sure some crazy person > will come up with one. :) If you need wpa_supplicant and /usr is a remote filesystem, the network over which /usr is being mounted probably requires WPA, so it would be somewhat pointless. There could be some exotic configurations in which /usr is mounted over a non-WPA-required interface and WPA is needed for another interface. But I think that's stepping into the YBWI realm of system configuration. If this is a real concern, then I think the only real solution is to modify the wpa_supplicant Makefile(s) so it installs in /sbin and its library dependencies install in /lib.
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