On 7/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The network-profiles system is woefully inefficient when it comes to > wireless setup. I connect to 4 different wifi LANs with 2 different devices > - that would require EIGHT separate profiles!
So? They're about 7 lines each, not including comments. I'm not sure how you're measuring efficiency, but I don't think the current setup is going to eat up a lot of your time. $ sed 's|eth0|eth1|g' <old_profile >new_profile There we go. Some more efficiency. To be fair though, Phil.... I didn't really anticipate a lot of laptop users who had two wifi cards in their machines. Your situation is somewhat unique, and though the current netcfg may not be ideal for you, I still think it handles 95% of the cases out there. Why do you have two wifi nics? Do you play on both A and G networks or something? > I know that people always favour their own approach but I think it is worth > mentioning mine again. Yea, that's the thing. Every time I propose a new profile setup to someone, the inevitable answer I receive is a couple more implementations. Maybe if I just add them all, we can have 19 ways of configuring network profiles on Arch and everyone will be happy. Perhaps the netcfg script really isn't an ideal solution for anyone but me. If so, my bad. It works really well here though. It's easy to set up and easy to use. But if I'm the only one that likes it, then I'd be open to some democratic suggestions for other implementations. I'm sure there are some other edge cases that netcfg does not handle cleanly. - J _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
