Description of problem: madwifi-ng allows the same wireless board to work in configurations of access point, station, and ad-hoc, all at the same time with different settings. To achieve this, madwifi created a master device wlan%d. From this master device you must create pseudodevices (slaves). The following patch makes this process easy by simply adding some config options and a (small) hack to allow devices "not present" at boot time to still be configured. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All. Additional info: Look! there's a patch! (attached) I've added my ifcfg-ath0
Created attachment 122566 [details] Patch against initscripts-8.11.1-1
This seems like it would be better solved in a madwifi support package (such as one that contains wlanconfig) by using the support for alternate ifup-$(DEVICETYPE) scripts directly.