Re: [Madwifi-users] daemon to handle wireless configuration?

[Paul M. <pa...@pi...>]

I have four wireless networks that I use regularly, and I would like to 
avoid manually running different scripts to execute iwconfig commands 
based on my perferred network.  A simple program to detect the 
available networks, connect to the appropriate network based on an 
ESSID priority list, and run some after connect scripts is all I really 
need.  Currently, I do not suspend my laptop and move from location to 
location, so a daemon to occasionally scan available networks isn't 
necessary.

It'd be nice to disable wireless if I'm plugged into a local LAN too.

For most networks, there isn't an authentication, just WEP encryption.  
I was just thinking it would be nice to further prevent users from 
using my router at home.  I noticed that the router has a shared key 
mode and open system.  Currently, I can only connect to it if it's in 
open system mode, regardless of the WEP settings.

For one network, I need to connect to a Cisco VPN server.  Previously 
I've used the cisco client, but now I've upgraded to kernel 2.6 and it 
no longer compiles.  I think IPsec would I allow me to connect without 
the cisco client, though I haven't tried to figure that out yet.

Thanks,
-Paul



On Sunday 23 November 2003 12:04 pm, Matt Foster wrote:
> Quoting Paul Miller (pa...@pi...):
> > I haven't been able to find a good daemon to handle my wireless
> > configuration.  Do any exist?  All the wireless "managers" for KDE
> > are aweful, and for the most part don't work.  I'd perfer not to
> > have a clunky X-based user application.  This seems like such a
> > necessary tool that I'd be very surprized if none exists for Linux.
> >
> > What about wireless authentication?  I would like to connect to my
> > router (Linksys WRT55AG) when authentication is enabled.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -Paul
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> What kind of things do you want to do? I use ifupdown-roam (an
> extension to debians interfaces) to sort out all of my wireless
> configs (and normal lan configs). It's not exactly a daemon, but it
> works really well for the most part, and through the interfaces
> pre-up, up etc commands you get get it to run scripts and set things
> up for you. You can also set location specific wireless settings (as
> everything else) using the interface systems wireless extensio
> support. The site is:
> http://panoptican.csustan.edu/thood/ifupdown-roam.html and its also
> in apt.
>
> wrt the wireless authentication, what kind of authentication do you
> use? Is it just WEP, or some kind of NoCat type thing? If its web
> based, then could you use some kind of lynx command to do it for you?
> Or have I missed the point alltogether (again!).
>
> cheers,
>
> matt