On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 16:01, Andrei Thorp <garoth@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello there,
I was recently digging around in the netcfg code to figure out why my WEP passphrase wasn't working. As I expected, it is because iwconfig at the moment doesn't support WEP passphrase.
Anyway, so I'd like to know the reason this has not been implemented in general. Is it because the netcfg devs want it in iwconfig and the iwconfig guys don't want to write this? Is it because no one has cared enough to do it? Should I go talk about this elsewhere?
Anyway, I personally think that netcfg could use this feature, and that it'd be dead simple to implement. I figured I'd do it while I'm on break, but I wanted to confirm that this is indeed a feature that wasn't being avoided for some reason. If it is a feature that is being avoided, can I at least write a small patch to tell the user what's the haps? (At the moment, netcfg tries to use the improper passphrase by passing a command to iwconfig and then iwconfig throws out a cryptic "unknown command" error.)
Cheers!
-Andrei "Garoth" Thorp
As Aaron said, iwconfig is the culprit here, not netcfg. A patch for that would be most welcome, I would think.