Am 19.06.2011 18:13, schrieb 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.
You can use iw to configure wireless options. You can also use iw instead of iwconfig for the wep-old and open-old modes. > 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? This isn't needed, this looks like a workaround for very early linux wireless drivers.
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