On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 09:12:37AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > In that case you should also have something like: > > wifi-style old > > or > > wifi-style new > Hmm, one could do that, but what if you just want the pcmcia card you > put in to work, picking the right syle automatically? What I did is made > sure I use the same field names and values as the "old" stuff and detect > in my script what kind of card it is. Once wireless-tools gets updated > with a simple patch that sould work great. Yeah, that's even better. > > Exactly. The above is all supported btw. It's not documented yet because > > I've been busy on other things -- actually it might be documented in > > either the BTS or in the NMUed ifupdown in unstable. I think it'd be nice > > to start getting as much of Debian's network stuff using this as possible. > In particular, the pcmcia stuff. Is it possible to do that yet w/o > patching the pcmcia scripts, and if not, is that patch something tha > could sanely go into pcmcia? I think PCMCIA has some support for ifupdown as of woody, but I'm not sure how it works. You might just have to add an "IFUP=yes" option or something? I don't use PCMCIA anymore personally, either. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``If you don't do it now, you'll be one year older when you do.''
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