I have a laptop with a wireless interface being the primary (and the only) one. I need it to be brought up at the same time as a wired interface would be (i.e. when network/physical service comes up). It doesn't work that way, however, as the only way to configure a wireless interface is wificonfig which requires R/W mounted /var/run (for device locking). Unfortunately, /var/run isn't available until after filesystem/minimal service is done. For now, I have wifi initialization running at the end of fs-minimal method, but it's certainly just a hack.
So how is all that machinery supposed to work? Will setting of wireless connection parameters be added as configuration options for the wifi drivers of to ifconfig, so that connection can be established along with plumbing the interface (or right after the interface is plumbed)? Or wificonfig will eventually be properly integrated into the SMF network initialization sequence? I know about inetmenu, but it's a different story altogether. This message posted from opensolaris.org
