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FS#3407 - WPA support in initscripts - NO example in template

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by dtw (dibblethewrecker) - Monday, 31 October 2005, 15:04 GMT
Last edited by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Wednesday, 02 November 2005, 10:09 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Rather than reopen the task I figured this would be quicker: why was Andy P's patch for the profile template not included along with his netcfg patch?

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/3140

We are starting to get really confusion about the wireless scripts in Arch. Judd has done a great job of them but no-one knows about it. Phrak and I are trying to increase awareness and leaving out a mention of the WPA functionaility in the sample profile is just daft!
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Monday, 28 November 2005, 19:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by dtw (dibblethewrecker) - Sunday, 27 November 2005, 21:47 GMT
Has this been fixed yet?
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Sunday, 27 November 2005, 22:08 GMT
Nope, I've never used WPA so I don't know what the WPAOPTS are supposed to be.

Care to give me a generic WPAOPTS to use as a template?
Comment by dtw (dibblethewrecker) - Monday, 28 November 2005, 08:51 GMT
Well, as I said phydeaux supplied a patch for the profile template that at least gives an indication of the support that exists:

+#WPAOPTS="" # use this to start wpa_supplicant with the profile
+ # use "" for normal operation or specify additional
+ # options ex "-D ipw"
+ # use /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf for configuration

I figured that was better than nothing and I wondered why it was originally excluded?

I've attached the relevant portion of Andy's patch.
(application/octet-stream)    profile.wpa.patch (0.6 KiB)
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Monday, 28 November 2005, 19:36 GMT
Thanks Phil.

Also added a USEWPA config directive. Otherwise, a blank WPAOPTS will not trigger the bash conditionals where wpa_supplicant is started.

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