Bug#295581: wireless-tools: if-pre-up script should load keys from file

2005-02-17 Thread Hadmut Danisch
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:18:44PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > > That problem has been reported before, but that is a bug in the drivers. > The drivers should accept ioctls in any order, but some don't. Also, > there is not one order that works well with every broken driver. If the > driver you u

Bug#295581: wireless-tools: if-pre-up script should load keys from file

2005-02-17 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:33:35PM +0100, Hadmut Danisch wrote: > How does one convince the author of a windows driver (used > with ndiswrapper) to modify it in order to work with Linux? > > How does one find the author of a windows wlan driver? As the Debian maintainer of the wireless-tools pac

Bug#295581: wireless-tools: if-pre-up script should load keys from file

2005-02-17 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:29:04PM +0100, Hadmut Danisch wrote: > > If you want to do this kind of stuff, I suggest you add a pre-up command > > to /etc/network/interfaces, like this: > > > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > pre-up iwconfig $IFACE key `cat keyfile` > > > > I will not add functionali

Bug#295581: wireless-tools: if-pre-up script should load keys from file

2005-02-17 Thread Hadmut Danisch
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:07:46PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > > If you want to do this kind of stuff, I suggest you add a pre-up command > to /etc/network/interfaces, like this: > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > pre-up iwconfig $IFACE key `cat keyfile` > > I will not add functionality in the if

Bug#295581: wireless-tools: if-pre-up script should load keys from file

2005-02-17 Thread Guus Sliepen
tags 295581 + wontfix thanks On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:37:01PM +0100, Hadmut Danisch wrote: > the if-pre-up script is great, but for setting WEP > keys it requires them to be included in the interfaces > file. Would be better to allow a wireless_* command which > loads them from an external f

Bug#295581: wireless-tools: if-pre-up script should load keys from file

2005-02-16 Thread Hadmut Danisch
Package: wireless-tools Version: 27-2 Severity: wishlist Hi, the if-pre-up script is great, but for setting WEP keys it requires them to be included in the interfaces file. Would be better to allow a wireless_* command which loads them from an external file. That file could be kept more secret