[patch] wireless patch, take 2

[Joe Shaw]

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 22:24 +0200, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> Why should you be able to set the ESSID through HAL?  I thought the 
> primary purpose of HAL was discovery, device specific control happens 
> through direct access to the device file or similar out-of-band mechanism.

It seems to me like it's a fairly easy property to set to me.  There
isn't any complex work needed to interact with the device in this
respect, and it means that apps like a wireless applet don't need to
link against iwlib and need root to make these changes.

Joe


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