[arch-general] Proposed netcfg expansion

[Daenyth Blank]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 16:01, 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.)
>
> 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.