request for wpa_supplicent integration

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 14:29 -0500, eyephisc wrote:
> so is there a way to make it as simple as windows to use wireless.  in
> other words,  the available networks are displayed in a menu and their
> respective authentication protocals are autodetected.

Not yet.

> Then, choosing a networking simply prompts for a password or whatever is required?   Or,
> because WEP and WPA are different, is this impossible somehow?  I just
> wish I knew enough about all the millions of programming languages to
> even know where to start if I wanted to implement something like this
> myself.

It is not impossible, bit no one has done it yet. What should be done
is:
* Scanning for wireless networks and detecting the security mechanism 
  used
* Interoperate with a dhcp client, ifconfig, wpa_supplicant, 
  wireless-tools, xsupplicant and whatnot...

The first part is fairly easy (a simple python script of about 50 lines
did that for me), the second part is more difficult. Especially
xsupplicant is hard to cooperate with since it does not provide a way to
send it commands.    
-- 
Dennis K.
  And that's the way the cookie crumbles!