Re: wpa_supplicant before dhcpcd

["matthew sporleder" <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 15:09 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 09:15:58PM -0400, matthew sporleder wrote:
>> > How do I convince wpa_supplicant to start before dhcpcd?  My rc.conf
>> > looks like this:
>>
>> If you don't mind it connecting to open wireless networks, you can just
>> let it wait. It should get a new lease once wpa_supplicant decided on
>> the network to use.
>>
>> In fact, it might be a good idea to hook up wpa_supplicant in a similiar
>> way as dhcpcd, since it is too per-interface.
>
> You may wish to consider shipping a default /etc/wpa_suppliant.conf
> which looks like so
>
> # This is a network block that connects to any unsecured access point.
> # We give it a low priority so any defined blocks are preferred.
> network={
>        key_mgmt=NONE
>        priority=-9999999
> }
>
> And this in defualts/rc.conf
> wpa_supplicant_args="-B -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"
>
> Then the user could do this in /etc/rc.conf
> ifconfig_iwi0="wpa dhcp"
>
> And would get the same defaults as if not using wpa (wpa_supplicant)
> which would be to connect to best unsecured network.
>


I like the idea of saying wpa in the same line as dhcp if we're going
that direction for per-interface configs.  However, I would prefer it
if simply added any "wpa" flagged interfaces to the -i argument of
wpa_supplicant.

Of course, this also kind of implies that dhcpcd and wpa_supplicant
should be integrated with ifconig(8).

Matt