Re: [gentoo-dev] wireless card support in /etc/conf.d/net and /etc/init.d/net.*

[Peter Johanson]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 08:14:12PM -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> With as many people as have laptops and wireless cards now, why isn't there
> built-in support for wireless cards in /etc/conf.d/net and
> /etc/init.d/net.*? I've seen a few good ones out on the forums, but it's
> very difficult for people to browse the forums when they don't have their
> network connection working ;)
>
> I got lucky. The driver for my Atheros-based card (madwifi) automatically
> scans for an AP and connects to it. All I had to do is copy
> /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to /etc/init.d/net.ath0 and run 'rc-update add
> net.ath0 default'.
>
> I want to enabled WEP on my WLAN. So, I now have to start hacking my net
> init scripts. That's just fine for me, but a lot of users will give you a
> blank look if you try to explain it to them.
>

This very thing is #2 on my "really important things gentoo needs" list.
Unfortunately it is directly behind the koutput stuff i'm working on to
get 2.6 kernel modules working, etc, etc. johnm and i are hopefully
going to have that merged at the end of this week, so once all of that
stuff is ironned out, this is getting my attention. 

If anybody feels like getting this done before i have a chance to get to
it, by all means. I won't be offended in the slightest. (:

-pete

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