[gobolinux-users] configuration internet access

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 2/5/07, Carlo Calica <carlo at calica.com> wrote:
> Wireless-Tools makes sense.  I'm thinking it should be called
> WirelessConfig.  It'll only deal with iwconfig settings.  Everything
> else (ifconfig, dhcpcd) should be handled by NetworkInterface.  Then
> changes won't need to be synced.
[...]
>
> An alias won't work (needs to be executable from outside a shell) but
> a wrapper would work great.  Which package?  And if its one of ours,
> wouldn't living in bin be less confusing?

Hmm, it sounds strange to put a "foreign" binary inside
Wireless-Tools' bin dir. Being a task it should be ok, but then we
would need to store settings somewhere. Are you fine on using a task
instead, plus a new file at Wireless-Tools/Settings to store the
network settings?

Another option is to merge this into Scripts/bin instead, having the
script a first check to verify whether the user has Wireless-Tools
installed. I was only a little reluctant on this because network
settings are currently stored in BootScripts. Maybe we should also
take the time and perform a general cleanup on this, putting
everything inside Scripts and/or in a new NetworkScripts package?

I'm adding gobolinux-devel to the cc: so that the discussion can be
followed by other developers not signed to this list.

-- 
Lucas
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