Re: [Madwifi-devel] Re: [Madwifi-users] wlanconfig => athconfig
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From: Alex W. <aw...@ot...> - 2005-12-24 11:21:56
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Pavel Roskin wrote: > Hello, Kel! > > On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 21:54 +1000, Kel Modderman wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>dy...@gm... was kind enough to donate some time into rewriting >>wlanconfig into a new tool named athconfig. athconfig promises to be >>much easier to use. >> >>This will change the way everyone uses madwifi-ng as they know it, so it >>would be good if a few poeple took a look at >>http://madwifi.org/ticket/44 and the proposed changes, and either >>prepare to update quite a bit of the wiki or prepare an argument against >>these changes ;-) > > > I would prefer to have configuration entirely based on wireless tools, > e.g. > > iwpriv wifi0 add_if ath0 > ifconfig ath0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55 > iwconfig ath0 mode master > iwpriv ath0 beacon 1 > > and so on. The main interface doesn't need to support any wireless > extensions other than add_if and del_if private calls. > > Only thing that may be missing from wireless tools is the ability to > return custom lists, so "wlanconfig ath0 list wme" could be harder to > replace. Still, I think it can be done in a more standard way than it's > done now. > > I have no objections against the change per se, but I think we would > spend too many efforts on a temporary fix. And let's not forget that > all users would have to change their setup scripts to accommodate for > the change. > Well it would appear that the current wlanconfig is not to everyone's liking, and changing it to athconfig apparently doesn't solve the real issue. So, now the problem becomes.... Who can make the necessary changes to madwifi for supporting wireless tools as a replacement for wlanconfig? Alex |