Description of problem: When trying to make FC3 with a cardbus wifi card identified as "Atheros Communications, Inc.", 0271,0012 for manfid (actually badged by D-Link as DWL-G650) I found that to get it really working besides of madwifi kernel support I need also 'wpa_supplicant' program, http://hostap.epitest.fi/ After figuring out that I really should look at hotplug, which was not that obvious, I found that I have to add a custom code to net.agent as otherwise there are no ways to deal with extra programs, like said wpa_supplicant. On the top of that remove events are not handled at all (see bug 127283, bug 150382) while I need to stop there both dhclient on that interace and wpa_supplicant. That would be not not that bad if not that detail that with the next update I would have to make a custom net.agent again. "Official" hooks would be so much better. Something like that, for example: if [ -e /etc/hotplug/custom/net.add.handler ] ; then source /etc/hotplug/custom/net.add.handler else # "regular" handler here fi With other hotplug agents possibly too. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hotplug-2004_04_01-8.1
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
net.agent is no longer used in current code; there is a udev rule that is used for this. Other udev rules could be added for other programs to be run at the same time (or earlier.)