[patch] wireless patch, take 2

[Joe Shaw]

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 11:03 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> Joe and I discussed this last night over "a few" beers.

Ahem.  And I feel fine.

> This would work, actually.  But do we want the complexity?  Last night
> Joe suggested to me just sticking the essid changing code in HAL.  That
> works.  I know there was contention to that earlier, and I agree with
> those points.  But from my point of view, the only doable solution is
> that or no ESSID setting code in HAL at all.

I don't think it's so bad.  We still need callouts to do the distro-
specific stuff of doing DHCP, maybe saving the ESSID as a default
somewhere in YaST or /etc/sysconfig, but those things are unavoidable.
But the ESSID would be changed to whatever you set.

Joe


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