On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 05:20:25PM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Hi all, > > By automatic connections I understood netman using the available > essids for which it knows the password to connect. This means, it does > not attempt to connect if no essid file is found under > /etc/network/wifi. > > Edward
The user should bee able to control which connexions are made automatically. There may well be essids which I do not want to be connected to automatically even though I have used them in the past. -- hendrik > > > > On 13/09/2015, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 02:35:43PM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> As I am approaching the final stages of Pre-Alpha development, I would > >> like to ask how netman should behave when 'automatic connections' are > >> enabled. > > > >> Needless to state the obvious, here, we are not doing Microsoft, but > >> rather, we want to keep netman as simple as it can be. Yes, there are > >> opinions contrary to what I am doing, but the world is such, that we > >> cannot please everyone. > >> > >> At the moment, I am thinking about how netman should behave when > >> automatic searching and connecting to wifi hotspots is enabled. I > >> already have an idea how this can be achieved, but I want to use the > >> least of processing time possible, knowing from experience how network > >> managers that think for themselves can be made to almost clog the > >> system. > > > > May I suggest that you step back and take a look at the big picture? > > > > As I see it, the big picture is more-or-less this: > > > > -netman is a gui to configure and manage ifup, which uses wpa_supplicant > > plugins to connect to specific pre-configured wireless interfaces. > > > > -ifup is a one-shot tool to configure network interfaces, featuring > > a great capacity for plugins. It cannot handle wireless itself, > > but there is a wpa_supplicant plugin. > > > > -wpa_supplicant is a daemon designed to autoconnect to wireless > > networks, supporting roaming and just about every type of wireless > > network. > > > > -the wpa_supplicant plugins are scripts that allow "ifup wlan0" > > to configure wlan0 in EITHER of two ways: > > (a) start wpa_supplicant with no config and add a single network: > > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > > wpa-ssid "foo" > > wpa-psk "topsecretpassword" > > (b) start wpa_supplicant with a pre-defined config containing all > > the networks, and configure the interface on connection: > > iface wlan0 inet manual > > wpa-roam "/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf" > > > > iface default inet dhcp > > > > > > It's seemed rather odd to me that netman ignores wpa-roam. > > > > HTH, > > Isaac Dunham > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
