Freddie Cash wrote: > On Fri, April 21, 2006 5:30 am, Felix Homann wrote: >> (I would *not* recommend to use the new configuration scheme proposed >> by the wpa_supplicant maintainers. It's not useful for a system in >> changing environments. Use the "old" or "deprecated" init script. >> There's currently a lot of discussion about this on the respective >> mailing list.) > > Oh good, so I'm not the only one who can't stand the > "new-world-order". Putting everything into the interfaces file breaks > all the nice, automatic, "it-just-works" configs I had.
It might break yours, but it was the way interface control was moving before we ever _had_ wpa_supplicant, so it would have been really nice if the wpa_supplicant developers had moved in step with the rest of the world. > What is it with Linux devs that they have to change everything that > works to something that barely works for the next three releases? Why > can't they just keep the things that work? wpa_supplicant has been > running perfectly on all my FreeBSD systems for almost a year now, and > is now broken on all my Linux systems. And I've been trying (and failing) to keep all my network information in /etc/network/interfaces for three years. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

