Bug#295581: wireless-tools: if-pre-up script should load keys from file

2005-02-17 Thread Guus Sliepen
tags 295581 + wontfix thanks On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:37:01PM +0100, Hadmut Danisch wrote: the if-pre-up script is great, but for setting WEP keys it requires them to be included in the interfaces file. Would be better to allow a wireless_* command which loads them from an external

Bug#295581: wireless-tools: if-pre-up script should load keys from file

2005-02-17 Thread Hadmut Danisch
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:07:46PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: If you want to do this kind of stuff, I suggest you add a pre-up command to /etc/network/interfaces, like this: iface eth0 inet dhcp pre-up iwconfig $IFACE key `cat keyfile` I will not add functionality in the if-pre-up

Bug#295581: wireless-tools: if-pre-up script should load keys from file

2005-02-17 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:29:04PM +0100, Hadmut Danisch wrote: If you want to do this kind of stuff, I suggest you add a pre-up command to /etc/network/interfaces, like this: iface eth0 inet dhcp pre-up iwconfig $IFACE key `cat keyfile` I will not add functionality in the

Bug#295581: wireless-tools: if-pre-up script should load keys from file

2005-02-17 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:33:35PM +0100, Hadmut Danisch wrote: How does one convince the author of a windows driver (used with ndiswrapper) to modify it in order to work with Linux? How does one find the author of a windows wlan driver? As the Debian maintainer of the wireless-tools

Bug#295581: wireless-tools: if-pre-up script should load keys from file

2005-02-16 Thread Hadmut Danisch
Package: wireless-tools Version: 27-2 Severity: wishlist Hi, the if-pre-up script is great, but for setting WEP keys it requires them to be included in the interfaces file. Would be better to allow a wireless_* command which loads them from an external file. That file could be kept more