[arch-general] Proposed netcfg expansion

[Andrei Thorp]

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