On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 21:18 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
On Thursday, 30 October 2008 at 15:04, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 13:34 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
[...]
> > What's wrong with manually editing wpa_supplicant.conf?
>
> Because it's not easily from anything but wpa_supplicant, and it's
> completely different than the existing ifup/ifdown config system.
> System-config-network would have to grow the ability to parse the
> wpa_supplicant config file format. You can't override the variables
> from /etc/sysconfig/network if you want to. There's no separation of
> interfaces to allow for multiple connections with two or more wifi cards
> with 'ifup number1' and 'ifup number2' independently.
How often do you see machines with multiple wifi cards? I haven't seen
any.
Until last week, I haven't see one, either, but I could not manage to
get the RealTek wifi working on my netbook, ...
I could easily set one up by adding a usb stick with wifi or a
pcmcia
card, but I haven't needed it yet.
..., which had caused me to try exactly what
you describe.
Provided how cheap these usb-beasts have become, it doesn't need much
imagination to envision you'll soon see more of such systems.
Ralf