diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index ead61b57..dbf33c45 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,6 +1,10 @@ # ChangeLog for Gentoo System Intialization ("rc") scripts # Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPLv2 + 17 Sep 2007; Roy Marples : + + Document the preferance of wpa_supplicant, #192828. + 09 Sep 2007; Mike Frysinger : Allow people to specify a list of dirs to clean in bootmisc #191807. Force diff --git a/conf.d.BSD/net.example b/conf.d.BSD/net.example index 4acee47a..77d0e7fc 100644 --- a/conf.d.BSD/net.example +++ b/conf.d.BSD/net.example @@ -106,11 +106,13 @@ #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # WIRELESS (802.11 support) -# Wireless can be provided by BSDs ifconfig or wpa_supplicant +# Wireless can be provided by BSDs ifconfig (iwconfig) or wpa_supplicant +# wpa_supplicant is preferred, use the modules directive to prefer iwconfig. +#modules="iwconfig" -# ifconfig support is a one shot script - wpa_supplicant is daemon that -# scans, assoicates and re-configures if assocation is lost. -# wpa_supplicant is preferred +# ifconfig (iwconig) support is a one shot script - wpa_supplicant is daemon +# that scans, assoicates and re-configures if assocation is lost. +# We call it iwconfig to seperate the wireless setup from ifconfig. #################################### # HINTS # diff --git a/conf.d.Linux/net.example b/conf.d.Linux/net.example index ba043eaa..040b42c2 100644 --- a/conf.d.Linux/net.example +++ b/conf.d.Linux/net.example @@ -150,7 +150,9 @@ #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # WIRELESS (802.11 support) # Wireless can be provided by iwconfig or wpa_supplicant - +# wpa_supplicant is preferred, use the modules directive to prefer iwconfig. +#modules="iwconfig" +# # iwconfig # emerge net-wireless/wireless-tools ###############################################