Wireless update to ifup and network-functions

[Jon Nettleton]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:59:57 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
<kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:
> Love to see it. will you post the link here?
> 
> ons, 15.09.2004 kl. 17.02 skrev Jon Nettleton:
> 
> 
> > 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.
> >
> > 1)  Is this the correct list?
> > 2)  Is this something that maintainers are interested in adding?
> > 3)  What is prefered format for patches?
> >
> > Hope to help out making Fedora Core 3 the best it can be.
> >
> > -Jon
> >
> 
> 

Here is my first set of working patches.  

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132661

I realize that NetworkManager will eventually help solve this problem.
 But I think this is a quick and relatively simple way to get booted
up and associated with the proper wireless network.