Re: Wireless update to ifup and network-functions

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Make that having this functionality is really becoming a necessity, or
not having this functionality is really becoming a nuisance to me. 
Not to self, "Must remember to reread before hitting the send button.
:-)

Jon

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:12:43 -0400, Jon Nettleton
<jon.nettleton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there any chance you could round up those patches for me?  Now that
> most my friends and family have wireless, not having this
> functionality is really becoming a necessity for me.  I am more than
> willing to spend the time to clean everything up and get it in shape
> until it meets peoples approval.
> 
> -Jon
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:12:12 +0100, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 11:02 -0400, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> > > If have put together a function and some new code for
> > > is_wireless_device that uses iwlist to scan available access points
> > > and then ifup a new configuration file if it finds one matching
> > > ifcfg-DEVICE_ESSID.   My questions are.
> >
> > That's nice. I assume it selects the appropriate key based on the ESSID
> > it finds?
> >
> > A while ago I sent patches to Bill (and/or put them in Bugzilla) which
> > added Bluetooth networking support. I moved the tail end of ifup into
> > ifup-eth, then added an 'ifup-wireless' which calls that, as does
> > ifup-bnep. We no longer have to have the wireless (or bluetooth) stuff
> > hacked in to the middle of ifup that way.
> >
> > --
> > dwmw2
> >
> >
>



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