Wpa_supplicant - need a good howto

[Andy Green]

Mike Cohler wrote:
> Andy Green <andy <at> warmcat.com> writes:
> 
>> # cat /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant
>> INTERFACES="-iwlan0"
>> DRIVERS="-D wext"
> 
> Thanks Andy - that is helpful -
> 
> Do you run up the interface with the wpa_suppliment command - or use a script?
> If you want to shut it down afterwards then do you stop the daemon?

You can use it via service:

service wpa_supplicant start

and

service wpa_supplicant stop

You can also do

chkconfig wpa_supplicant on

to have the service started automatically at boot, but this didn't work 
out right for me so I start it by hand after boot instead.

-Andy