Re: [Madwifi-devel] Re: [Madwifi-users] wlanconfig => athconfig

[Joachim F. <jf...@ic...>]

Pavel Roskin wrote on 12/19/2005 15:17:
> 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.

+1