Bug 70648

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Description of problem:
There doesn't appear to be an obvious place to put wireless configuration
information (such as ESSID, mode, keys, etc).  This used
to be in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, with a useful if perhaps cryptic method to
determine which card is in use, and make the right settings.

ifup-wireless (part of initscripts) has the right code to use iwconfig in order
to set the values, but I don't see an obvious
place that this information can be set.  There's no machine 
specific file that's used to provide this sort of info.

Nor have I found any GUIsh tools for supporting this information.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see ifup-wireless
2. look for a place to set ESSID or KEY
3.
	

Additional info:

I added a small chunk of code to ifup-wireless that should look
familiar.

[ -f /etc/sysconfig/wireless ] && . /etc/sysconfig/wireless

Now I can do whatever I need in a shell script to set the parameters
that need setting.  I do miss this being part of the pcmcia settings,
since I use a scheme where if it's in the bottom slot, I use the
values for home and in the top pc card slot, I use the values for
work.  

There should be a good way to manage multiple wireless profiles,
ideally based on information already obtained (like ESSID perhaps,
or MAC address of the AP).  I've hacked something within /etc/sysconfig/wireless
to check which slot I'm in via /var/lib/pcmcia/stab, which is really ugly but it
works.

I couldn't do this unless I made the requested change to ifup-wireless however.