hi, On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:33:35AM -0500, Walter Goulet wrote: > One minor point that befuddled me at first was the fact that ifconfig > and wicontrol use different terms when referring to the SSID. > Specifically, if you use ifconfig to set the SSID, you have to use the > 'nwid' option. However, if you use wicontrol, the man page has a > seperate option 'q' used to set the SSID. >
please don't use wicontrol anymore. most of it's functionality except some dubious buttons have been added to ifconfig. > - Change ifconfig's interface to replace 'ssid' with 'nwid' at the risk > of breaking existing scripts etc (Note that NetBSD changed 'nwid' to > 'ssid' to resolve this issue). breaking scripts for nonsense? uhh... ssid is a wrong, but commonly used, term and the essid (extended service set id) is the IEEE name for the "network id". we're fine with nwid because it's a generic name which also applies to non-802.11 protocols and it's less cryptic. > - Change ifconfig's manpage to indicate that nwid is really the same as > the ssid. > you mean the ESSID ;-). a hint in ifconfig(8) is probably the better idea. > I personally think the second option is the better option; I'd be glad > to submit a patch once I finish building userland. I'd like to get some > opinions before I move forward with this effort. > no. we won't replace nwid with neither ssid nor essid. same for nwkey. > Thanks, > Walter reyk
