> The only thing it won't do out of the box is automatically connect to previously used wifi networks. I suspect none of the OpenBSD developers want that. That

> The only thing it won't do out of the box is automatically connect to previously used wifi networks. I suspect none of the OpenBSD developers want that. That's not true. OpenBSD developers want this. There are several ideas floating around about making the kernel cache wifi passwords, scan and re-connect automatically when it lost link to the AP. This topic keeps coming up during hackathons. For various reasons it's not as easy to do as one might expect. The net80211 layer and wifi device drivers don't keep track of link state to the AP at present. This would need to be implemented first. It is essentially client-side roaming support. One way of doing this is to count missed beacons and assume the AP is out of range if no beacons have been seen for a while. Some devices provide such counters in hardware, some don't. The biggest part of the challenge is to make this work seamlessly with _every_ driver. Then there's a risk of feature bloat. Add too much automation and you end up with something opaque like network manager which just pisses many people off. Add too little automation and you don't cover many use cases. And networking is not just about wifi, it's at least about ethernet and VPN as well. Some tools already exist to handle aspects of this (e.g. ifstated(8), trunk(4), interface priorities managed with ifconfig(8), a ton of ipsec tooling), and should be properly integrated in the design. Another question is how to integrate with desktop wireless tools that come from Linux (e.g. wifi network pop-up menus for KDE4 and Gnome3) which usually require a backend using Linux-specific ioctls or dbus/NetworkManager/systemd APIs to function. But seamless integration with desktops would be outright awesome and make the system much easier to use for non-technical users. There's probably a couple of gsoc projects worth of work in this. If someone is seriously interested ("no talk without diffs attached" kind of serious) in pursuing this I might be available to act as a mentor.