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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
:Revision: 		1
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Jakob's wireless config for Gentoo
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:Description:
    Since a few days Jakob Westhoff - a good friend, university and usergroup
    collegue of mine - has a blog. I convinced him to set one up, because he
    produces a lot of geeky things, which by now stayed on his harddisc.

Since a few days `Jakob Westhoff`__ - a good friend, university and
`usergroup`__ collegue of mine - has a `blog`__. I convinced him to set one
up, because he produces a lot of geeky things, which by now stayed on his
harddisc.

.. __: http://westhoffswelt.de
.. __: http://phpugdo.de
.. __: http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/

Yesterday Jakob has published `a first piece of his work`__: An enhanced way
of configuring wireless devices on `Gentoo Linux`__. Usually you define all
your settings in the /etc/conf.d/wireless file. But if you have to manage a
lot of access points with a lot of advanced settings (like post assignement
scripts), this file gets large and unmaintainable. Jakob enhanced the wireless
configuration to use a directory /etc/conf.d/wireless.d/, where you can store
a single configuration file for each AP.

.. __: http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/index.php?/archives/2-Gentoo-wireless,-my-way.html
.. __: http://gentoo.org

I did not try it out myself (mainly because of the lag of time), but what I
saw on his maschine looks great! I hope the Gentoo people will possibly
intergrate it into the system.

**Great work, Jakob!**


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