On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:09:19AM +0100, Devil505 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 14) a better support about wireless with gnetconfig > > > Some users really want that gnetconfig can detect wireless networks (like > wifi-radar or wicd). > A feature request is already in BTS: FS#2478
hm that's interesting.
first, iirc wpa support is implemented in netconfig but not in
gnetconfig at the moment. i think it should not be hard to do it in
gnetconfig as well. (see the netconfig.c part of
33cb7e09df03f8865a1484b7a6f8833897c16328 in frugalwareutils.git)
second, having the ability to automatically use free hotspots is
interesting as well. my ipw2200 card does this when you load the kenrel
module. in fact i haven't googled a lot, probably there is a smarted way
as well, but here is what i have at the moment:
$ sudo cat /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp
[eth0]
pre_up = rmmod ipw2200; sleep 1; modprobe ipw2200
post_up = killall ssh
options = dhcp
dhcp_opts = -d -t 20 -L
sure, it's ugly but it works perfectly with any free hotspots :) so
these days i usually first run netconfig dhcp, and if that fails, i
start to search with iwlist/kismet/etc.
i wonder if there is a lib for this type of autodetection. if yes, then
we could have support for it in frugalwareutils, and hence in
{g,}netconfig.
also, a related idea:
15) improve netconfig to list card descs when asking for iface name
for example i have two cards, a wireless and a normal ethernet. udev
randomly names these to eth0 and eth1 on the first boot (this is
normal). now netconfig asks me the interface name.. of course i don't
know it. but we could have a list like:
$ sudo lspci|egrep 'Network|Ethernet'
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network
Connection (rev 05)
so instead of an inputbox with eth0/eth1, netconfig could use a menu,
like:
eth0 Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
eth1 Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
(i've added this as well.)
pgpJGzSVrvMGj.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ Frugalware-devel mailing list [email protected] http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-devel
