[arch-general] Proposed netcfg expansion

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Andrei Thorp <garoth at 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.)

Well, technically this has nothing to do with netcfg. If you patch
iwconfig to support it, the patch would go upstream and netcfg would
"just work", it seems.

That said, isn't WEP all sorts of broken? I was under the impression
WPA was the way to go these days