On 7/19/05, Judd Vinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Here was my response on the TUR list (which is very similar to Judd's, heh): > 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! Ummm... yeah, that makes sense... the only way to simplify it more without autodetecting everything would be to allow generalizations per device... (i.e. load_my_profile home wlan1) 4 different WLANs => 4 profiles... there's no way around that. However, I think using 2 wifi devices throws things off... this isn't the common case, and for the common case (1 device), it's a 1-to-1 relationship. Why do you need 2 wireless devices anyway? Keep in mind, this makes sense when you combine wireless and wired devices (as it allows)... I mean, you can't say "hmmm I'd like to use this profile, setup for wlan0, on eth0 today", so the seperation of profile and device doesn't make sense. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
