Requirements

• wpa_supplicant
• dhcpcd
• A gaspar login/password at the EPFL (you get one if you're a student or an employee there)
• A working wifi adapter (tee hee)

Installation

Copy wpa_supplicant.conf to /etc/ Edit wpa_supplicant.conf to replace the GASPAR_LOGIN and GASPAR_PASSWORD values with your own.

Copy go-wifi and stop-wifi to somewhere in your $PATH (e.g. /usr/bin/) Edit go-wifi and stop-wifi to set the proper values for WIRELESS_IF (default = wlan0) and KERNEL_MODULE (default = iwlagn)

A passwordless sudo makes them more comfy, use the NOPASSWD directive in visudo if you want to enable it (at your own risk!)

Usage

Connecting

Do

go-wifi

to start the network. It might take some time to associate + get an IP address.

You can use sudo wpa_cli status, iwconfig, and ifconfig to check, respectively what wpa_supplicant is doing, what wireless access point you're associated to, and if you already have an IP address

Disconnecting

Do

stop-wifi

to disconnect from the network. This will kill the DHCP daemon and wpa_supplicant

Reconnecting

The soft way:

go-wifi

This will tell wpa_supplicant to reassociate

The hard way:

stop-wifi; go-wifi

This will shut down the dhcpcd daemon and wpa_supplicant, then try to connect again from scratch

Licence

WTFPL 2.0

Enjoy!