On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:34 +1100, "James Rayner" <[email protected]> wrote: > new netcfg in [testing] ready for signoff. > > > Also, news item for the release follows below: > > netcfg v2.5.1 > > This release brings a completely new auto wireless/wired configuration. > The old net-auto is deprecated and no longer included. There are also > some very minor configuration changes that may affect a few people. > > Move to new auto-wireless/wired > The new automatic connection has proper roaming support and will prove > more reliable than the old setup - particularly with more complicated > wireless configurations. > To migrate to the new automatic wireless setup: > 1. pacman -S testing/wpa_actiond > 2. Set WIRELESS_INTERFACE="" to your wireless interface in /etc/rc.conf. > For example WIRELESS_INTERFACE="wlan0" > 3. Add net-auto-wireless to your DAEMONS=() array. > > Note: wpa-config profiles do not work with this, convert them to > wpa-configsection profiles. An example is included in > /etc/network.d/examples/ > > The new auto-wired uses similar configuration - follow the above > instructions except use the net-auto-wired daemon, and WIRED_INTERFACE > configuration option. > > New features: > - net-auto-wireless/wpa_actiond - Real wireless roaming/auto connection. > Based on same principle as autowifi. Requires optional dependency: > wpa_actiond > - net-auto-wired - automatic ethernet configuration. Requires optional > dependency: ifplugd > - Interface configurations - set options for all profiles using an > interface > - Output hooks > - Internal cleanup & improvement > > Internal changes: > - Uses wpa_supplicant for all wireless configuration by default, > including wep/none security. This adds improves support for most and > should improve reliability. > - Uses iproute by default for all static configuration. net_tools > which contains ifconfig is effectively obsolete and hasnt seen a > release for over 8 years. The 'ethernet-iproute' and 'ethernet' > connection types have been merged together to simply 'ethernet'. All > options are still supported and existing configurations will continue > to work for both types. A symlink has been made to ensure that > profiles using 'ethernet-iproute' will continue to function. > > Changes in configuration syntax > - net-auto and AUTO_NETWORKS is now deprecated in favour of > net-auto-wireless/net-auto-wired. > - wireless: If you were previously specifying the wpa_supplicant driver > in WPA_OPTS, you now need to specify it in WPA_DRIVER. > - wireless: iwconfig based configuration for wep/none can be used by > changing to wep-old or none-old. This should not be necessary and is > left in place only for the possibility of very old drivers that do not > support wpa_supplicant. > - ethernet-iproute: As 'ethernet' is now iproute based, those using > 'ethernet-iproute' can revert the name. There is a symlink in place, so > existing configurations of either name will continue to function > regardless. > - wireless-dbus: Unsupported. The wpa_supplicant dbus interface isn't > particularly well documented and it doesn't fit well into the netcfg > codebase. There is a symlink in place so that configurations using > wireless-dbus will continue to function using the 'wireless' connection > scripts. > > Download: > netcfg 2.5.1 is in [core]. > Source: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/netcfg/netcfg-2.5.1.tar.gz > PKGBUILD: In subversion > > Documentation: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles > > Contributors: > I had a few big contributors to this release: > Jim Pryor: Many internal changes and improvements > Thomas Bächler: wpa_actiond based auto roaming/connection > Thanks guys! > > Bugs: > On the bug tracker as always.
Oops, sent to arch-dev.
