wpa_supplicant & suspend

[Dmitri Hrapof]

Emilio Scalise <emisca <at> email.it> writes:

> Do the scripts call ifdown at suspend time?
yes
> If you call ifdown, wpa_supplicant process is killed?
yes

Now, after two yeses, it looks strange, but still it doesn't work without
killall and explicit start. Worse, sometimes I have to ifdown/ifup eth1 by hand
after resume.

> To control wpa settings from gnome you could try network-manager, but I
> don't personally like it too much.

I used network-manager, and it worked well with suspend, but it seemed to me it
started only after user log-on in Gnome (ie no network without X11). Also, it
asked for password to unlock the keyring.
And I was too lazy to install additional programs that make it use the password
of the current user. Are these issues resolved in Feisty?
 
> I prefer use wpa_supplicant in
> roaming mode. See /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.modes.gz for an
> howto (it's the third section).

Thanks for info!

Dmitri