[NCLUG] Fedora 6 and the RaLink rt2500 wireless card

[Stephen Warren]

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Chad Perrin wrote:
> There's always ifconfig (which can be used to change network
> configuration as well as to dump configuration to STDOUT).  More to the
> point, however, the configuration file is fairly standardized and easy
> to read and understand.  Thus, you can just edit the network
> configuration directly without having to go through several separate
> files in several different directories.  Even better, there are manpages
> in Debian at least for the format of various configuration files, so you
> don't have to rely on configuration scripts or find some hoary old
> neckbearded suspenders-wearing UNIX guru circa 1975 living in the
> basement of your local university to figure out what options are
> available for network configuration files.

It sounds like all the distros you mentioned all have distro-specific
tools just like Fedora/... - it's just that those distro specific tools
happen to be distro-specific configuration file formats. That said, I
imagine there must be distro-specific GUI tools to manipulate those
files too, at least in some cases.

So, the only thing you don't like about Fedora/... is the specific
format of the configuration files and the fact that you couldn't find
the docs, which are in a standard place (standard for Fedora - i.e. the
same place as all other non man/info docs for all Fedora packages).
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