On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 12:06:07PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
James Rayner schrieb:
Some ideas of making it co-operate with netcfg... a) definitely record state. create the standard netcfg state files so netcfg knows the interface is in use, and autowifi is using it. Don't hurry and implement this now, i'm moving state to netcfg/functions, so any script can set state.
Good idea.
b) Through the above, make it possible for netcfg --stop-iface work, which shouldnt be hard, and possibly even netcfg --stop autowifi.
If we do c), then this should work automatically, right?
c) Possibly, just implement autowifi as a netcfg connection type, thus moving /etc/conf.d/autowifi to a profile, and the regexp's to the same file. So to enable autowifi, one would just add 'autowifi' to the network daemons line and modify the example /etc/network.d/autowifi with the above. You could also keep the /etc/rc.d/ -- it could just call start_profile autowifi from netcfg/functions
That is what I thought, but it still leaves the problem of the networks/ssids. They have to be configured somewhere.
wireless settings would stay in the wpa_supplicant.conf regexes and such in network.d/autowifi network ip configuration... network.d/ profiles?
d) For the various networks, you could just implement these as autowifi-ethernet type networks, or with a bit of work, I could modify ethernet and they would be standard ethernet profiles.
I don't really like that, but I'll have a look.
yeah... I'm not sure, maybe a bit of trial and error might be worth a go, evaluate some ideas and see what happens.
Just ideas, not sure how well they'd work. Don't rush and implement anything till i get the state work done, which should be this week.
My stuff is still proof-of-concept. I will test the usability over the next few weeks anyway and then over time see what can be improved. I won't rush integration into netcfg now, so take your time.
Ok, cool. I've got exams for the next week or so, but after I plan to get netcfg up to scratch and tidy the rough edges. James