[NCLUG] Fedora 6 and the RaLink rt2500 wireless card

[Stephen Warren]

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Chad Perrin wrote:
>>> In Red Hat, sure, it's "standard".  It has also changed internally in
>>> that time, and it's not "standard" for anyone else in the form used by
>> What do you mean by "changed internally"?  ONBOOT=yes, BOOTPROTO=static,
>> IPADDR=, DEVICE=eth0, all these have been around since I started using Red
>> Hat 3.0.3, IIRC.  At the very least they've been that way for so long that
>> I don't remember them being any other way...  Yes, they probably have added
>> things to it like "MAC=" to support ifrename...
> 
> I don't mean the file format, I mean the file names and locations.  I
> don't actually know if the internal format of the config file has
> changed -- I've just run into the problem of having files move around on
> me between RH8 and FC3, and with documentation that I found when I
> needed it being out of date.

Are you referring to:

/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices (and .../profiles)
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

Note that these locations haven't "changed" but both exist together at
the same time (by my experience, at least on FC2 and more recent, and
CentOS 4.3 and more recent.)

- From what I recall, roughly:

profiles contains a sub-directory for each profile you create. Possibly
useful for home/work/coffee-shop etc. That said, if you have never
explicitly created a profile, you may not have any content inside
profiles...

When you tell Fedora to change profile, the relevant content from the
profile are linked into devices and network-scripts.

The ifup etc. scripts themselves I believe only use the network-scripts
directory.

I don't know quite what use the devices directory is, but typically the
files are all hard-linked into network-scripts, so not really a big deal...
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