[gentoo-dev] New local use flag for kdenetwork: wifi

[gentoo-dev] New local use flag for kdenetwork: wifi

[Dan Armak]

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Hello everyone,

I'm going to create a local use flag 'wifi', off by default, for enabling 
wireless-related functionality in (cvs) kdenetwork. There's a tool there to 
manage wifi hardware, but requires wireless-tools to be installed (so we 
can't just turn the kdenetwork part on by default).

It looks to me like a good candidate for becoming a global use flag, now or in 
the future, so if someone knows of other packages that can use it please say 
so now so we can make it global to begin with.

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Dan Armak
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Matan, Israel
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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] New local use flag for kdenetwork: wifi

[Michael Cummings]

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For what it's worth, running a wifi network here so I'm all for it :)

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:02:45 +0300
Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm going to create a local use flag 'wifi', off by default, for enabling 
> wireless-related functionality in (cvs) kdenetwork. There's a tool there to 
> manage wifi hardware, but requires wireless-tools to be installed (so we 
> can't just turn the kdenetwork part on by default).
> 
> It looks to me like a good candidate for becoming a global use flag, now or in 
> the future, so if someone knows of other packages that can use it please say 
> so now so we can make it global to begin with.
> 
> -- 
> Dan Armak
> Gentoo Linux developer (KDE)
> Matan, Israel
> Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key
> Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD  0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951
> 


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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] New local use flag for kdenetwork: wifi

[Dan Armak]

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On Wednesday 02 July 2003 20:17, Yannick Koehler wrote:

> It maybe stupid but Wi-Fi is a marketing term to identify IEEE802dot11b,
> for higher speed wireless network, wifi5 is going to be used I believe.
>
> So instead of using the marketing name, why not use the word 'wireless' for
> this ?  wireless-tools may expand someday to more than wi-fi adapter such
> as bluetooth or new tech...

I agree, that's a good thought. OK, changing proposal to 'wireless' flag.

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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux developer (KDE)
Matan, Israel
Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key
Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD  0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] New local use flag for kdenetwork: wifi

[Todd Berman]

> I agree, that's a good thought. OK, changing proposal to 'wireless' flag.

Actually, I have to disagree.

At home I have a desktop with a 80211b card, so I would like optional
80211b support, but I don't have any bluetooth devices, so I would
prefer if this was a different flag.

Just because something is wireless doesn't mean I want it even though I
have a 80211b card.

--Todd


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] New local use flag for kdenetwork: wifi

[Dan Armak]

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On Wednesday 02 July 2003 22:29, Todd Berman wrote:
> Actually, I have to disagree.
>
> At home I have a desktop with a 80211b card, so I would like optional
> 80211b support, but I don't have any bluetooth devices, so I would
> prefer if this was a different flag.
>
> Just because something is wireless doesn't mean I want it even though I
> have a 80211b card.

Hm. But if we have separate flags for every kind of wireless h/w, they won't 
stand much of a chance to be made global. What's a term somewhere in the 
middle? 802.11x?

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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux developer (KDE)
Matan, Israel
Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key
Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD  0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] New local use flag for kdenetwork: wifi

[Bartosch Pixa]

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On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 21:40, Dan Armak wrote:

[snip]

> Hm. But if we have separate flags for every kind of wireless h/w, they won't 
> stand much of a chance to be made global. What's a term somewhere in the 
> middle? 802.11x?

wlan ?

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