[TriLUG] Wireless Roaming in Ubuntu

[Pat Regan]

Josh Vickery wrote:
> You might want to take a look at:
> 
> http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/
> 
> which has replaced waproamd.  Its a daemon that your configure once
> with all the different APs you want to connect to.  Once configured,
> it scans for APs, and loads the appropriate configuration (WEP key,
> WPA, IP address, etc.).  Unless I am mistaken, it can be configured to
> fall back to using "any" AP if it can't find one for which it is
> configured.
> 
> Josh
> 

I am going to also, indirectly, give my thumbs up to wpa_supplicant.  I
still use waproamd on my old Orinoco card, and it works wonderfully.  I
have about a half a dozen networks configured and it picks them up
without any trouble.

wpa_supplicant didn't like my driver.  There are apparently 3 or so
drivers that work with my chipset.  The only one I have gotten to work
flawlessly also doesn't work with wpa_supplicant :p.

Pat
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