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> wifi-supplicant and crap What's wrong with wpa_supplicant? It works really well, you just write one config file with all the networks and you can set the net

• dijit 9y ago
  Much easier to just: ifconfig wlan0 scan ifconfig wlan0 ssid "thingIfound" wpakey "password" up dhclient wlan0
  • floatboth 9y ago
    That's easy for joining random hotspots, yeah. But for a more stable setup, wpa_supplicant is excellent. I have a config that prefers my home network (which is EAP-TLS secured, how does ifconfig on OpenBSD handle that?), then mobile hotspot, then a couple other known networks. It automatically decides the best network to use.
    • dijit 9y ago
      That is indeed cool, I used to rely on my bash history to find my old ifconfigs for common networks I liked. It's lower power though. Due to lack of polling. I guess there are advantages to the wpa_supplicant way of doing things too. But you have the option on openbsd too at least.