Re: gentoo patch

[Daniel Gryniewicz <dang fprintf net>]

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 09:49 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 09:11 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 08:29 +0200, Magnus Ottosson wrote:
> > > Yes! I have that... I hav not had time to try your patch yet. Maybe today.
> > 
> > I was kind of waiting to apply the gentoo patch until somebody said it
> > worked, but if you don't get to it today I'll apply it anyway.
> 
> The problem with the patch is that our config files for networking have
> just changed and are immensely complex.  I'm thinking about just
> bypassing/ignoring them altogether.
> 
> Nathaniel

No, the solution is to write a module for the net scripts that takes the
place of iwconfig/wpa_supplicant for wireless, and ifconfig/iproute for
wired.  I think it's actually possible to make NM fit into gentoo now,
for the first time.

Daniel