Catchall example network block?

Roy Marples uberlord
Fri Aug 18 13:18:54 PDT 2006


Hi List

A Gentoo user has quested this block being added to the example file
(http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144339)

network={
        ssid=
        key_mgmt=NONE
}

Note, you don't actually need to have the ssid= line, key_mgmt=NONE is 
sufficient.

This enables wpa_supplicant to connect to any unencrypted access point. A good 
thing to add as I myself didn't know that wpa_supplicant could do this.

This has also highlighted a bug. When this block is used, wpa_cli status does 
not report an ssid - just can empty string. Would be nice if it filled in the 
ssid of the AP.

Thanks

-- 
Roy Marples <uberlord at gentoo.org>
Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networking)




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