Package: whereami Version: 0.3.28 Severity: wishlist Hello, First of all, kudos on this excellent program. It's really fantastic.
I think that a very common use case is to have a series of wireless networks that you might connect to, and you may have a preferred order by which you want to connect to them. Such as, try home first, then work, then other work location, etc. This can obviously be expressed just fine by detect.conf, but it's rather complicated to set up as it is. I think a good default config file to ship would be to bring up dhcp if eth* is plugged in. If not, try to get a wireless address from some available network. Also, if possible, give the user a set of debconf prompts to list wireless networks in order that they'd like to use. This may be too complicated for debconf though, so providing a simplified default conf file that uses a more complicated detect.conf behind it to actually configure this. The config file could be a "wireless_order.conf" or something, which would just be a list of wireless networks to be tried, in order, along with an optional WEP key next to network name. The user could simply edit this file, or a very basic frontend could be put in front of it. Any user needing something more complicated could have a detect.conf that ignores this file. I know this is rather complicated, but it'd be great to have whereami ship a functional setup on install for most people, that could be easily modified further down the line. If I get some time, I'll try and code up an implementation for this myself, but please beat me to it if you like the idea :-) - David Nusinow -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages whereami depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.0 Debian configuration management sy ii fping 2.4b2-to-ipv6-13 sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to ii netbase 4.25 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii perl 5.8.8-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages whereami recommends: ii iputils-arping 3:20020927-3 Tool to send ICMP echo requests to ii resolvconf 1.35 nameserver information handler ii wireless-tools 28-1 Tools for manipulating Linux Wirel -- debconf information: * whereami/how_to_configure: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
