On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:13 +0200, "Rémy Oudompheng"
Hello,
wpa_supplicant is supposed to provide most of the wireless_tools functionality. I have set up a branch of netcfg that replaces all uses of wireless_tools by wpa_supplicant.
http://projects.archlinux.org/users/remy/netcfg.git/log/?h=no-iwconfig
iwconfig is still used by the deprecated IWCONFIG option, but there is still one thing I don't really understand.
In src/connections/wireless, there is block that calls "iwconfig mode Managed" before starting wpa_supplicant. The log is not really explicit about why this was added (it merely says it was necessary for iwl3945), and wpa_supplicant man page only says it's necessary for the hostap driver, which we do not use. Does anybody knows the reason why it is needed?
At that time the iwl3945 driver was very new and wpa_supplicant didn't work unless you put the card into managed mode beforehand. Hopefully that's no longer the case - it should be fine to remove that line now. Awesome work with netcfg, it's great to see someone working on it again!