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On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 09:25 +0100, Stroller wrote: |
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> What's the difference between wpa_supplicant & wireless-tools, then? |
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Both do the same job - provide the tools to configure your wireless |
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card. |
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wpa_supplicant is a daemon that runs in the background and when it |
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associates with an AP in your list it applies the pre-defined security |
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settings. Any current wireless security on SOHO boxes is supported. |
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wireless-tools is a set of programs that configure your card per your |
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settings and call it a day. Gentoo baselayout does some rudimentry |
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scanning and AP selection, so it's not that bad. Only WEP security is |
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supported. |
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> Could ipw2200 (theoretically, as a virtual, or at some point in the |
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> future) depend upon wpa_supplicant instead? |
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That would be upto the package maintainers to decide, but I can't think |
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of any reason why not. |
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Roy |
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