Re: [Madwifi-users] clarification for documentation

[Matt F. <mat...@cl...>]

Quoting Kamaraju Kusumanchi (kam...@gm...):
> http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=3Dhow_do_i
>=20
> says that=20
>=20
> If you use debian, then the interfaces (in /etc/networks/interfaces
> used by ifup) commands would similarly be:
>=20
> wireless_key XXXXXXXXXX
> wireless-ap XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
> wireless-channel X
> wireless-essid foobar
> wireless-rate XXMB
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> My question is should not it be wireless_ap, wireless_channel,
> wireless_essid, wireless_rate etc., (underscores instead of -s)? While
> the man page suggests wireless-essid, the
> /usr/share/doc/wireless-tools suggests to wireless_essid style in
> Debian Sid. Should not there be a uniform way of addressing this?
>=20

Well spotted! I've had a look in the ifupdown code, and I can't see
anything in there but references to '-' being the seperator. That said,
I did only look quickly.=20

I suspect the the fact that different docs mention each method means
that they are both supported, although I remember someone emailing me
and telling me to change the '_'s to '-' in the past.

Anyway, if I were you, I'd ignore the underscore, and put in a hyphen
instead, since that's what ifup recommends.

Cheers,

Matt
PS. I've updated the wiki.

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