[gentoo-user] WLAN daemon?

[gentoo-user] WLAN daemon?

[Sven Köhler]

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Hi,

is there any "WLAN daemon" that scans for wireless LANs and loggs into
them, if he finds one, that i prefer?


Thanks,
  Sven


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Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN daemon?

[Elias Probst]

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Am Samstag, 14. April 2007 02:10:42 schrieb Sven Köhler:
> Hi,
>
> is there any "WLAN daemon" that scans for wireless LANs and loggs into
> them, if he finds one, that i prefer?
>
>
> Thanks,
>   Sven

emerge wpa_supplicant

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Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN daemon?

[Daniel Pielmeier]

Sven Köhler schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> is there any "WLAN daemon" that scans for wireless LANs and loggs into
> them, if he finds one, that i prefer?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
>   Sven
> 

Maybe wifi-radar fits your needs!
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[gentoo-user] Re: WLAN daemon?

[Sven Köhler]

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>> is there any "WLAN daemon" that scans for wireless LANs and loggs into
>> them, if he finds one, that i prefer?
> 
> Maybe wifi-radar fits your needs!

I think, it's "just" an application - a frontend. What i would prefer,
is really a daemon running as root in background, scanning for networks,
loggin into them, etc.


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Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN daemon?

[Mick]

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On Saturday 14 April 2007 01:35, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> Sven Köhler schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there any "WLAN daemon" that scans for wireless LANs and loggs into
> > them, if he finds one, that i prefer?
>
> You will find some useful informaton and links here:
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html

As I understand it a good WLAN device driver will associate and re-associate 
with the next available device when it comes into range.  Some drivers are 
not that good at re-associating.  In that case you may have to modprobe -r 
and then reload the driver, or unplug/replug the WiFi device if it is a 
USB/cardbus.  If you engage in the noble sport of <aheam> wardriving then you 
will need to use a good device that has well developed drivers in Linux.  I 
am not aware of a daemon that performs this function in parallel to the WiFi 
device driver, sort of a ifplugd for wireless, but others may know better.
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Regards,
Mick

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[gentoo-user] Re: WLAN daemon?

[Sven Köhler]

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> As I understand it a good WLAN device driver will associate and re-associate 
> with the next available device when it comes into range. Some drivers are 
> not that good at re-associating.

Right, but just imagine you close the laptop in the university and open
it at home again.

There is no such thing as "re-associating". The interface is still
configured for the university net which simply isn't there anymore. Some
application needs to scan for available nets and it should then realize,
that it should reconfigure the interface for my home net.


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