[WHEREAMI] Re: whereami and WPA

[Andrew McMillan]

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 08:27 -0800, asd asdf wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using whereami on Debian etch / Ubuntu edgy and it works great. The only 
> thing that is missing is how to handle WPA. Is there a solution for that 
> problem? I didn't find any HOWTO for that in the web. There are several that 
> explains how to do it independently of whereami, but then you have to change 
> /etc/network/interfaces, and you loose the flexibility of whereami to handle 
> several wireless networks. Also the nice thing in whereami is that you have 
> one file detect.conf where you can write all the passwords. Can it still be 
> applied with WPA?

Hi,

To use WPA with whereami you need to use wpa_supplicant, including
having a supplicant configuration that works with your WPA network.  If
this is done then you can use the 'testsuppplicant' script included with
whereami to check for successful connection to a WPA network.

This generally works best if you have already detected the ESSID for the
network, and (naturally) before you testdhcp against it.

Hope this is some help.

Regards,
					Andrew McMillan.

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