NetworkManager, NetworkMagic, wpa_supplicant, ifupdown

[Karl Hegbloom]

I just found out that 'wpa-supplicant' listens on a control socket
designed to make it able to communicate with a GUI or command line
application.

My present WIFI network configuration is using wpa-supplicant.  Please
download and have a look at:

 http://www.laclinux.com/~karlheg/debian/lac-wlanctl_4_i386.deb

To use it, I put:

 karlheg ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/wlanctl *

... into /etc/sudoers, and then type:

 sudo wlanctl on
 sudo wlanctl off

... to bring the network up or down.  It works with open AP, as well as
ones with WPA and WEP.

I'd like to have a nicer way to do this... I wonder if something like
NetworkManager could utilize ifupdown and wpa_supplicant?  I bet it
would not be hard to create such a thing.  There is also some code in
'waproamd' that might be worth a look at.

-- 
Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu>