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(a)gmail.com> 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(a)infradead.org> 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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