LOL. I'm crap at this. I swear all I do is make trouble for myself. I
used to hope I carried it all off in a vaguely entertaining way but now...
Judd Vinet 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 honest I think my main observation (not complaint) is that you've
worked to keep all the config settings in one file, rc.conf, but I'm
faced with the prospect of numerous profile files just to manage my
wireless connections. It just seems odd to me to have four different
files that only differ by one ESSID. With almost every other Arch
daemon pkg all the config takes place in one file in conf.d - I'm think
I'm just a bit disappointed it won't be the same for the wireless
stuff. Inefficent was probably a bad word choice.
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.
I think you are right - in the past you have always managed to provide a
very balanced solution to most problems - I think we all appreciate the
work that must take. Or at least we would do if we didn't spend so much
time flapping our gums...
Why do you have two wifi nics? Do you play on both A and G networks
or something?
That's about it I guess - i have to switch 'em out occasionally.
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
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