[arch-general] Exiting wpa_supplicant

[Rafael Beraldo]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>wrote:

> Am 22.10.2012 17:57, schrieb Nelson Marambio:
> > I use wpa_supplicant in combination with the -B switch to establish the
> > connection. After a pause of 10 seconds I pull an IP address by calling
> > dhcpcd.
>
> I can't count the number of reasons why this is a bad idea.
>
> I've looked into this topic years ago, and the result is netcfg's
> net-auto-wireless mode.
>
>
>
That's interesting. Why is that a bad idea? I used to do it by hand,
waiting for
wpa_supplicant to stablish a connection and then running dhcp. Nowadays
I just use wicd but I'm interested to understand what could go wrong.

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Rafael Beraldo
cabaladada.org