On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 10:18:07PM +1000, James wrote:
Hey, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Scripts
I've been pushing these repeatedly, with only meager interest shown by others. Given a little bit of documentation, I think they're almost ready for me to unleash and publicise for further testing.
laptops are often moved between wireless networks and thus require user interaction. "Static" configuration on system startup are improper for these requirements. Most other distribution even don't have wpa support in initscripts. It's complex and error prone. RedHats NetworkManager is a nice application for this job. actually we have most of the stuff we need for Laptops. I didn't have
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Jürgen Hötzel wrote: the time to look at James work yet (sorry) and maybe he incorporated the idea already. Can we create a list of wifi networks at startup with `iwlistscanning`, parse it and grep for the ESSID and lookup in the network profiles if an ESSID matches. It's not perfect, but it might be a nice default for laptops. Oh, and yes I know, who suggest sucha thing should actually go ahead and implement it. -T