[arch-dev-public] [networking] autowifi

[Thomas Bächler]

James Rayner schrieb:
> Some ideas of making it co-operate with netcfg...
> a) definitely record state. create the standard netcfg state files so netcfg knows
> the interface is in use, and autowifi is using it. Don't hurry and
> implement this now, i'm moving state to netcfg/functions, so any script
> can set state.

Good idea.

> b) Through the above, make it possible for netcfg --stop-iface work,
> which shouldnt be hard, and possibly even netcfg --stop autowifi.

If we do c), then this should work automatically, right?

> c) Possibly, just implement autowifi as a netcfg connection type, thus
> moving /etc/conf.d/autowifi to a profile, and the regexp's to the same
> file. So to enable autowifi, one would just add 'autowifi' to the
> network daemons line and modify the example /etc/network.d/autowifi with
> the above. You could also keep the /etc/rc.d/ -- it could just call
> start_profile autowifi from netcfg/functions

That is what I thought, but it still leaves the problem of the
networks/ssids. They have to be configured somewhere.

> d) For the various networks, you could just implement these as
> autowifi-ethernet type networks, or with a bit of work, I could modify
> ethernet and they would be standard ethernet profiles.

I don't really like that, but I'll have a look.

> Just ideas, not sure how well they'd work. Don't rush and implement
> anything till i get the state work done, which should be this week.

My stuff is still proof-of-concept. I will test the usability over the
next few weeks anyway and then over time see what can be improved. I
won't rush integration into netcfg now, so take your time.


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