On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 05:35:10PM +0530, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 04 avril 2011 à 11:55 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski a écrit : > > Well, actually configuring a wireless network with wpa_supplicant and > > ifupdown is not hard at all and does not require too much time, _if_ a > > user has developed a good habbit of reading documentation first. > > It seems to be a common belief between some developers that users should > have to read dozens of pages of documentation before attempting to do > anything. > > I’m happy that not all of us share this elitist view of software. I > thought we were building the Universal Operating System, not the > Operating System for bearded gurus.
I do not think that reading documentation before trying to achieve something is that elitist. And in the case of wpa_supplicant, it is definitely not dozens of pages. Basically, it is just man interfaces man wpa_supplicant.conf zless /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.Debian.gz (and for most cases just reading that README.Debian should be enough) > > It is also preferable in that sense that you configure it once and it > > works for years, surviving upgrades, etc. So in the end you conserve > > your time, and not loose your time. > > Do you even know in what kind of contexts a laptop with wireless > connection is actually used? Because from your sentence it looks like > you live in a different world. Perhaps, I do. I travel quite a lot, so I use my laptop in airports, libraries, hotels, etc. The wireless networks in public locations are usually open and do not require any specific configuration; the most of them are catched with a simple roaming setup outlined in that README from above, supplanted with a default /e/n/interfaces stanza for DHCP-based networks. If one instead prefers using a GUI, then there is wpa_gui with which one may scan for networks, select the needed one, change parameters, etc. I also use wireless at home and at the sites where I work. For these locations I have several fixed stanzas in /e/n/interfaces and in wpa_supplicant.conf that I do not need to touch at all. -- Stanislav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110404133118.GA17213@kaiba.homelan