On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:17:38 +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > On Wednesday 26 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote:
(...) >> Let me ask you again... what specific setup configuration options are >> you missing from the current available tools to setting up your >> wireless adapters in Debian? > It is possible to hand code, using the explicit iw commands, all the > things I want to do, BUT it is long winded, difficult to read, and if > for instance I change an interface name (say wlan0 to wlan1) I have to > change all the references in the commands, and Sods Law says I will miss > one. AFAICT, there is the option for using static names to define the network interfaces, by means of udev rules, so you don't have to depend on the "wlan0" or "wlanx" naming. > The wireless_XXX aliases provide a shorthand and also hide things like > making sure the right interface is passed to the right command. I am > looking for an equivalient which allows me to use the new facilities in > the iw command (such as configuring mesh networks) which can not be > encoded using either iwconfig or wireless_XXX. I still don't get the point for your request :-) You want to use "wireless_XXX" and you can use them, so why are you worried about? I suppose at the time these tools are not available anymore there will be a convenient replacement. And now you say you are looking for an "equivalent" option for something that currently cannot be done with the wireless-tools utilities. Then you're not looking for an "equivalent" but for a way to do "something" with "iw" tools. It's okay but that's not what I understood for your first post... > Its not that it can not be done, it is that the "Debian Way(TM)" seems > to be to use these aliases (and the wireless_XXX one is not the only > one) and there is no alias (that I can find) that uses iw and therefore > enables the facilities that I am trying to define. Mmm, I don't want to be stubborn but a concrete example will help a lot to find a way to do what you want to get ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.10.26.16.36...@gmail.com
