On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 18:51 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:25:49 +0200, Gábor Stefanik said: > > > Iwconfig and iwlist are themselves deprecated. Iw is the new wireless > > configuration tool. > > Somebody better tell Fedora Rawhide - as of the version released on July 27, > their 'initscripts' RPM was still using iwconfig in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless > > So don't be quite so fast to be declaring WIRELESS_EXT dead just yet. Given that nobody has stepped up to write patches to convert them to use iw (or wpa_supplicant in the *correct* manner), and that for the most part wifi on Fedora goes through NetworkManager and/or wpa_supplicant, it's not surprising. I don't have any particular interest in keeping the existing ifup-wireless iwconfig hackery around, instead if it's converted at all, it should be converted to use wpa_supplicant instead, in the manner in which I've described in the various bug reports that keep coming up. That means not just pointing wpa_supplicant at a config file, but instead keeping the options in the ifcfg file and writing out a temporary wpa_supplicant config on-the-fly so that it integrates with existing administrator expectations and workflow. Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
