Debian Bug report logs - #304032
wpasupplicant: [PATCH] Please add support for starting/stopping wpa_supplicant on ifup/ifdown

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: wpasupplicant: [PATCH] Please add support for starting/stopping wpa_supplicant on ifup/ifdown

Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:50:22 +1000

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Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.3.8-1
Severity: wishlist

I almost never use the wireless interface in my laptop, but when I do I
need WPA support, so I have wpa_supplicant configured deal with that for
me.

This is great, but I don't really want it to start at boot time, since
normally that would be a waste of time and effort.

Given that, I created these two scripts to start and stop wpa_supplicant
on an interface when it is brought up or down by the if{up,down}
commands.

This is controlled by setting 'wpa_supplicant yes' in the interface
stanza, and the attached pair of scripts.

Would you consider adding them to the distribution, please?

      Daniel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-rc1-enki
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7e-3     SSL shared libraries

-- no debconf information

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Message #10 received at 304032@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Samuelsson <debianbts@cos.user.lysator.liu.se>

To: 304032@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Confused message about bug

Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 15:00:43 +0200

I noticed this bug a while ago and immediately though it was suggesting
to do a bad thing.

The fact that wpa_supplicant itself scans for networks and upon finding
them attaches to them, leads to that interfaces gets brought up because
of wpa_supplicant.

Implementing what is suggested would lead to an infinite loop if I not
misunderstand completely?

host# ifup eth0
[wpa_supplicant gets started]    <-
                                  |
[wpa_supplicant brings up eth0] ---

Maybe this will not be a problem in the most simple case, (Given that
the bug submitter had a working patch) but what happens when network
configuration starts to get complicated? When there are "up"-commands in
/etc/network/interfaces?

Maybe the thing to do is to skip starting wpa_supplicant as a service
from /etc/init.d and instead use the hotplug system. I.e. #295445

I am not completely sure on how this would work, but my feeling is that
it would be more correct.

If, like the bug submitter, one would not wan't to use the wireless
interface one could simply make sure not to load the kernel module.
--
/Martin

Message #15 received at 304032@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>

To: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>, 304032@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#304032: wpasupplicant: [PATCH] Please add support for starting/stopping wpa_supplicant on ifup/ifdown

Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:13:12 -0400

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you, finally clearing
out a bunch of the bugs on the package.

On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:50:22PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> I almost never use the wireless interface in my laptop, but when I do I
> need WPA support, so I have wpa_supplicant configured deal with that for
> me.
>

Recent wpa_supplicant supports "waiting" for the interface to appear
before it will do anything for you. Does this do more or less what you need
or do you still want this ifup/ifdown stuff. I'm tempted to not do anything
about that, mostly because most wireless cards are becoming MiniPCI and
not hotpluggable, and become I'm lazy. :P

Cheers,
	Kyle 

Message #20 received at 304032@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>

To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>

Cc: 304032@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#304032: wpasupplicant: [PATCH] Please add support for starting/stopping wpa_supplicant on ifup/ifdown

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:17:42 +1000

Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> writes:

> Sorry for taking so long to get back to you, finally clearing
> out a bunch of the bugs on the package.

Nah, no problem.

> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 10:50:22PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> I almost never use the wireless interface in my laptop, but when I do I
>> need WPA support, so I have wpa_supplicant configured deal with that for
>> me.
>>
>
> Recent wpa_supplicant supports "waiting" for the interface to appear
> before it will do anything for you. Does this do more or less what you need
> or do you still want this ifup/ifdown stuff. I'm tempted to not do anything
> about that, mostly because most wireless cards are becoming MiniPCI and
> not hotpluggable, and become I'm lazy. :P

I don't think it is worth the extra effort to save the tiny bit of swap
that having wpa_supplicant running all the time. :)

Thanks, though.
        Daniel

Message #25 received at 304032-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>

To: 304032-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#304032: fixed in wpasupplicant 0.4.7-4

Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 06:02:09 -0800

Source: wpasupplicant
Source-Version: 0.4.7-4

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
wpasupplicant, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

wpagui_0.4.7-4_i386.deb
  to pool/main/w/wpasupplicant/wpagui_0.4.7-4_i386.deb
wpasupplicant_0.4.7-4.diff.gz
  to pool/main/w/wpasupplicant/wpasupplicant_0.4.7-4.diff.gz
wpasupplicant_0.4.7-4.dsc
  to pool/main/w/wpasupplicant/wpasupplicant_0.4.7-4.dsc
wpasupplicant_0.4.7-4_i386.deb
  to pool/main/w/wpasupplicant/wpasupplicant_0.4.7-4_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 304032@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de> (supplier of updated wpasupplicant package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.7
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:27:52 +0100
Source: wpasupplicant
Binary: wpagui wpasupplicant
Architecture: source i386
Version: 0.4.7-4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Kyle McMartin <kyle@debian.org>
Changed-By: Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>
Description: 
 wpagui     - GUI for wpa_supplicant
 wpasupplicant - Client support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i)
Closes: 304032 317548 353530
Changes: 
 wpasupplicant (0.4.7-4) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [Daniel T Chen]
 .
   * Convert rcS.d script to use /etc/network/if-p{ost-down,re-up}.d
     instead. Remove the rcS.d script installed in 0.4.7-0ubuntu{1,2}.
     If you manually modified /etc/network/interfaces to use the pre-up
     and post-down directives with wpasupplicant, please remove them.
     Thanks to Scott James Remnant for the guidance. (Closes: #304032)
 .
   [Kel Modderman - submitted via bug #353530] (Closes: #353530)
 .
   * Use upstream manpages.
   * added watch file
   * cleanups in debian/rules
   * Install wpagui manpage to man8
   * Use qmake-qt4 directly, to avoid ftbfs on systems with other qt
     versions installed.
 .
   [Reinhard Tartler]
 .
   * Merged with ubuntu package
   * added myself to Uploaders
   * use debhelper 5
   * remove debian/wpasupplicant.conffiles, debhelper handles this on its own
   * renamed ChangeLog.gz to changelog.gz, (Policy 12.7)
   * installed lintian override for possible multiple calling of update-rc.d.
     This is necessary to support different upgrade paths.
   * revised postinst, so that updating initskript links happens in when
     configuring the package only
   * introduce debian/NEWS, documenting importants bits of debian/changelogs,
     and a bit about future development of wpasupplicant
   * verified working WPA EAP-TLS on ipw2200. (Closes: #317548)
   * /etc/init.d/wpasupplicant is now a initscript which is not started on
     startup by default. (see changes by Daniel T Chen). lintian is not happy
     about this, so another lintian override was added
Files: 
 168e87811e7d5adb266edc1d89750678 692 net optional wpasupplicant_0.4.7-4.dsc
 1bd7a2e55d36556eb61e4c09b6346c87 28984 net optional wpasupplicant_0.4.7-4.diff.gz
 3ceb0c9d61384d62b754a9eb78455f45 172000 net optional wpasupplicant_0.4.7-4_i386.deb
 8f1537504d46c37377e1202bb3a38def 61432 net optional wpagui_0.4.7-4_i386.deb

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