Matthew Saltzman wrote: >On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Rob Thorne wrote: > > > >> >> >This sounds like it ought to be in Bugzilla. > Tech support thought so too. I've entered it as #76199. > OTOH, if you had the >wireless-tools RPM in place before the upgrade, it probably would have >been upgraded and we'd all be none the wiser. > True. But many people need to rebuild the pcmcia-cs package manually, and frequently need to update wireless tools as well. When you do so, they install into /usr/local by default. > > > >>2) The location of iwconfig is *hardwired*. Not so good. >> >> > >Not so bad. If the dependency is satisfied, then iwconfig is guaranteed >to be in the right place. This is how RPM systems ought to work, I think. > > It's a little tricky to do this with RPM, since it isn't clear which package should not install if wireless-tools isn't present. Arguably, "neat", the network config tool, should check for iwconfig, and give some feedback to indicate that wireless is not supported, and why. > > >>My system had a version of iwconfig in /usr/local/bin. Once I made a >>symlink to /usr/local/bin/iwconfig at /sbin/iwconfig, the wireless card >>comes up automagically, as it should. >> >> > >How did iwconfig get into /usr/local/bin? If you had the wireless-tools >RPM it should be in the right place. > > Again, if you build from source (and many people have to), it will be in /usr/local unless you specially tweak the location with "configure". Adding a check for iwconfig under /usr/local would be pretty easy to do, and would cover this case. > > >>It's not secure to just assume that iwconfig is in the path, so I'm not >>sure what the best fix would be (perhaps to also check for iwconfig at >>/usr/local/bin/iwconfig as well). But at least this should be >>documented somewhere, so consider this post documentation. >> >>Thanks to everyone who replied, >>Rob >> >> >> >>>Best Regards, >>>Keith >>> >>> >>> > > > -- Rob Thorne Chief Technical Officer Torenware Networks -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
