unencrypted net

Jouni Malinen j
Sun Nov 4 19:12:33 PST 2007


On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:09:24AM +0100, Angel Martin Alganza wrote:

> I have read somewhere (and I don't seem to be able to find it again)
> that waproamd (WLAN roaming daemon) is deprecated and wpasupplicant
> should be used instead.  It was said there that one could add a
> generic entry at the end of wpa_supplicant.conf and so when the
> configures encrypted networks (at the begining of the file) are not
> available, any available unencrypted network is used instead.
> 
> Was this information correct?  And, if so, what would be the right way
> to do it?

Yes, please take a look at the example wpa_supplicant.conf included in
the wpa_supplicant package. The last network entry there shows an
example of a wildcard SSID (just leave the ssid field out from the
configuration block) with key_mgmt=NONE to select open networks.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA




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