"wifi-radar" wanted

[Ante Karamatic]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 09:25 -0400, gotmonkey wrote:

> I am fine with running wifi-radar after I log into gnome. When I boot,
> I get held up at network interfaces. Is there a way to speed this up? 

Yes. In /etc/network/interfaces, there are "auto" lines. Comment them
out all, except one - "auto lo". This one must be there all the time.

> The question is: Is there a way to start the hardware initializing
> without it trying to start a network connection? Since I am most likely
> going to be using wifi-radar to connect to my various WAPs manually.

Yes. Kernel initializes devices, and init is bringing up services wich
start networking, printing, etc... You just have to configure how do you
like your networking (commenting out "auto" lines).

> I rarely plug my laptop into a hard line network, I would like the
> option to, but don't need it trying to find connection at boot. 

Breezy will have very good support for things like this.

> Does any of this make sense or have I lost my mind?

Sure it does. You aren't the first one that thinks Ubuntu networking
could be better. That's why there are big improvments in Breezy. Breey
will rock, once it becames usable :)