Small doubt about wpa supplicant.

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 07:52 +0530, Raghavendra. S wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>  
>  Thanx for your reply.
>  
>   Will you please tell me how to disassociate using supplicant. In my
> case after enabling supplicant as daemon, i will get ip using dhcp
> client and then start working. Once my work is done. I have to
> disassociate with the AP rt? or just killing wpa_supplicant is enough?

Yes, but do it cleanly by sending it the TERM signal so that it will
remove keys and clear other stuff when it exits.

> Also as I am integrating wpa supplicant to some device. using iwlist
> to scan is must or is there some other way by which I can get almost
> same output as that of scan. If using iwlist is must then I have
> to port iwlist also. So I am asking some thing that does provide same
> output like iwlist but with less size.

There are a few options; if you're using C you can do your own scan
code, it's not really more than 200 lines of C.  Or, you can look at
using wpa_cli, or talk to wpa_supplicant directly over the control
socket just like wpa_cli does.  Both ways allow you to get scan results.

Dan
 
> -Raghu. 
> 
>  
> On 12/6/07, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote: 
>         On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:54 +0530, Raghavendra. S wrote:
>         > Hi All,
>         >
>         >  I am newbie to wireless. So only this silly question comes
>         from 
>         > me...:)
>         >
>         >  I am using wpa supplicant. Now on our device. we have some
>         WLAN code
>         > which does scanning..association ..etc all those basic
>         wireless events
>         > and then it call dhcp client to get IP. 
>         >
>         >    Now they asked me to integrate wpa supplicant to provide
>         security.
>         > I saw even wpa supplicant does scanning,
>         association....authentication
>         > and then connects. In short wpa supplicant is a binary with
>         config 
>         > file....which establishes secure channel.
>         >
>         > My question is if I integrate wpa supplicant I guess I dont
>         need
>         > previous code which does scanning..association...etc. I can
>         directly
>         > invoke wpa supplicant and then use dhcp client to get IP. Am
>         I 
>         > correct?
>         
>         That is correct.  Get rid of your own scanning and association
>         code.
>         Create the right config file for wpa_supplicant, let it do
>         it's job, and
>         then when it's connected you do the DHCP manually. 
>         
>         Dan
>         
>         
>         
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards & Thanks
> Raghavendra. S