[patch] remove wireless support

[Robert Love]

On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 17:16 +0200, Owen Fraser-Green wrote:

> But iwlib (or, more correctly wireless-tools) is the tool of choice for
> wireless configuration on Linux. BSD already has it's own tools (I think
> they just use ifconfig). OSX, Windows and all the others presumably have
> their own tools too so the reality is that iwlib will always be specific
> to Linux. This means that, in today's environment, every wireless
> network-aware program which aims to be cross platform must basically
> implement it's own abstraction layer over the different libraries. That,
> in itself, is surely bloat.

Then s/iwlib/libwireless-ng/

The abstraction layer can be in iwlib, HAL, or some other library.  The
point is that these other, class-/task-specific libraries will exist
either way, so they can contain the abstractions.

	Robert Love



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