FWIW, Ubuntu has been carrying the attached patch to wireless-tools since 2006 (i.e., the time of Matthew's bug report).
Matthew, do you know if this is still needed for softmac? There's been at least one bug report against wireless-tools in Ubuntu complaining that it breaks other ifupdown functionality (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219520), so if it's safe to drop this diff now, I'd like for us to do that. I agree that conceptually, it's better to set all of the wireless variables before bringing up the interface. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff -Nru wireless-tools-29/debian/pre-up wireless-tools-29/debian/pre-up --- wireless-tools-29/debian/pre-up 2008-11-14 06:30:01.000000000 +0000 +++ wireless-tools-29/debian/pre-up 2008-11-14 06:30:01.000000000 +0000 @@ -1,11 +1,16 @@ #!/bin/sh IWCONFIG=/sbin/iwconfig +IFCONFIG=/sbin/ifconfig if [ ! -x $IWCONFIG ]; then exit 0 fi +if [ -x $IFCONFIG ]; then + $IFCONFIG "$IFACE" up +fi + if [ -n "$IF_WIRELESS_SENS" ]; then $IWCONFIG "$IFACE" sens $IF_WIRELESS_SENS fi
