[arch-general] Exiting wpa_supplicant

[G. Schlisio]

> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:28:57 +0200
>> Von: "Thomas Bächler" <thomas at archlinux.org>
>> An: arch-general at archlinux.org
>> Betreff: Re: [arch-general] Exiting wpa_supplicant
>> Am 23.10.2012 02:42, schrieb Rafael Beraldo:
>>> 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.
>> You wait for 10 seconds. That is way too long. A wireless connection is
>> usually established within 3 seconds. Or not.
>>
>> You wait for 10 seconds. That is way too short. A wireless connection
>> may take 30 or even 60 seconds to establish.
>>
>> A wireless connection may go up and down. It may stay down. Or come back
>> up. You need to react to these changes.
>>
>>
>> Luckily, dhcpcd can partially handle this these days and you can simply
>> start dhcpcd without delay, and it will figure out when to request an IP.
>>
> Hi, Thomas,
>
> the delay of 10 seconds is recommended by the computing centre which maintains the university-wide WLAN. Without the delay dhcpcd returns a timeout.
>
> Your reasons against wpa_supplicant are conclusive but neither netcfg nor wicd (which I would prefer) are supported here. Especially the encryption method that I have to configure in wicd is not documented.
>
> Kind regards,
> Nelson.
hi nelson,
i used to do it just like you with a hacky script.
after looking into netcfg i realized, that it does the exact same like 
my script before, but way better.
you can even keep your config file for wpa_supplicant.
you universitys computing centre just dont know the awesomeness of arch…
just have a look at the wiki, youll figure it out easily.
georg