Re: Wifi support for iproute2

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 02:26:53 +0100
Stephan Maka [off-list ref] wrote:

Hello

I've always felt uncomfortable by the usability of the wireless-tools
(iwconfig, iwlist), but I really love iproute2. That's why I started
to implement "ip wifi".

My GIT tree is located at:
  http://cthulhu.c3d2.de/~astro/git/iproute2.git/

I wonder if this has a chance to get merged in iproute2 somewhen at
all, or if this is completely inappropriate functionality for this
tool.

Note that this my first contribution to a Linux-specific tool, *any*
hints about style and conventions demanded here are welcome.

I'm sure not everyone will use this instead of wireless-tools, and a
few even don't want it compiled in and linked with iwlib. Should I
make this optional through a Makefile variable?

If noone else contributes not all of wireless-tools will be
implemented, it's just too much. But basic stuff for configuring a
Wifi card is already there.

Everyone told me dscape is near, but I hope iwlib will be ported then.

Don't waste your time with a tool that uses the exist wext API.
But a tool that could use cfg80211 would be useful. After the wireless
summit in Jan, I put it on my "interesting ideas" list.