Dear Alan,
I'd like to request removal of the special treatment for Atheros (v.s.
Ralink) wireless. I don't believe it is necessary, and it confused me
while trying to debug the wireless toggle.
"ifconfig up" should not be necessary either. network-manager works
fine without it on my system. ifupdown must be able to work without it,
because the interface starts off as "down" when ath5k is loaded at boot
time. If "ifconfig up" is necessary in some setups, I can only think
that they are broken.
If we remove this, we'll probably break things for some etch users who
run eeepc-acpi-scripts from unstable. Therefore I'd suggest to add
logic to detect the kernel version and only remove the special treatment
for kernels >= 2.6.30. Yes, that'll add more cruft, but otherwise we
might ruin the experience for people running mixed systems.
Kind regards,
Thiemo
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