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FS#24849 - [wpa_supplicant] Add initscript

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Alexander Straube (a-st) - Thursday, 23 June 2011, 19:47 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 08:28 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Please add an initscript to the wpa_supplicant package.

Maybe we could use the attached on
   wpa_supplicant-init.d (1.2 KiB)
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Closed by  Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Friday, 24 June 2011, 08:28 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Thursday, 23 June 2011, 19:59 GMT
Your attached script is for openrc. It does us no good, running sysvinit.
Comment by Alexander Straube (a-st) - Thursday, 23 June 2011, 20:16 GMT
Okay i used the cups initscript as a base for a new wpa_supplicant initscript

It works fine here but I think it need more testing
   wpa_supplicant (1.8 KiB)
Comment by Alexander Straube (a-st) - Thursday, 23 June 2011, 20:50 GMT
Here is the modified source package

EDIT: Forgot to set right permission for initscript

(application/x-gzip)    wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-4.src.ta... (7.7 KiB)
(application/x-gzip)    wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-5.src.ta... (7.7 KiB)
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 08:28 GMT
I closed such a bug report as "Won't implement" in the past already. Such a script isn't very useful, as wpa_supplicant alone cannot configure a network interface properly. In fact, wpa_supplicant is not supposed to run as a standalone daemon.

Instead, the netcfg package includes modes to
1) Configure a number of networks in network profiles and auto-select the best one.
2) Configure a single network in a network profile and use it.
3) Use an existing wpa_supplicant configuration file.

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