[PATCH 0/3] WLAN/SDIO power up/down synchronization

Werner Almesberger werner at openmoko.org
Sat Nov 22 11:38:48 CET 2008


Andy Green wrote:
> Yes on normal laptop NetworkManager it does IOCTL or whatever for iwlist
> wlan0 scan, and then if it likes an AP for normal WPA case it uses
> wpa_supplicant so everything is redone.  I don't use WEP but I am sure
> this is also handled by NetworkManager.

Oh, cool. Then we don't need "real" suspend (i.e., without reset)
until we want to do things like VoIP. Thanks !

> I don't know the status of NetworkManager-type support in the rootfs-es,

At least on the Openmoko side, it's really bad. There isn't even a
clear statement from our application people as to which network
manager would be the best to use - they all appear to have one major
issue or another, and everyone's afraid of touching them it seems.

So I'll bring this up on the devel list and see if our community can
do better.

- Werner



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