[ltp] Re: Managing network connections

André Wyrwa linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:29:00 +0200


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Hi,

> Personally, I use wpa_supplicant and manually bring up/down the network.
>=20
> With that I can write a three line configuration entry for WEP or
> WPA-PSK networks, and they simply work for me. =20
>=20
> I also have a generic "no protection, any SSID" entry as the lowest
> priority, and DHCP, so that I can connect to open access points without
> having to do anything.
>=20
> wpa_supplicant manages the process of detecting and selecting networks
> while running, and is good and competent.  It also supports any sort of
> WPA style you could possible want, including the various "Enterprise" or
> PKI based systems.

Would you care writing a howto about that? I'd like to get some insight
into this but it all seems to confusing at the start.

Andr=E9.

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