[arch-projects] [netcfg] add wireless connection aid

[Jouke Witteveen]

A while ago, a conversation between Thomas and Rémy showed that netcfg
is in need of a new maintainer. Since netcfg is such a nice
achievement in network management, it would be a shame to let it die a
dusty dead...

Regardless I would still like to see wifi-menu included in netcfg 2.7.
All that is needed is to add the wifi-menu script to the scripts
folder of netcfg and add
	    scripts/wifi-menu \
after line 31 of the makefile.

Any opinions? Since I am actually using wifi-menu and have been using
its predecessor, wifi-select, for quite some time, I am interested in
caring for the script in the future.

Regards,
- Jouke


On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 12:35, Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wrote a wireless connection script for netcfg:
> https://github.com/joukewitteveen/wifi-menu/
> It does a thing similar to wifi-select (available in Community), but
> more in the style of netcfg-menu (part of netcfg). It integrates
> tightly and I plan to keep the source up to date with netcfg changes.
>
> The script requires netcfg 2.7 (currently not yet released, but remy's
> tree has the required patch applied).
>
> I would like to see the script (wifi-menu) added to the scripts
> directory of netcfg, alongside netcfg-menu. The requirements are:
> - dialog (just like netcfg-menu)
> - wpa_supplicant (mandatory for wireless anyway)
>
> If this seems a good idea, I would like to ask Remy to add the script
> to the netcfg repository (and make a release :-) ).
>
> Regards,
> - Jouke
>
> P.S.
> netcfg is an orphaned package?!