wireless wiki pages -- refresh needed?

altercation · 2011-09-06 22:24:45

I spent some time today reviewing the current linuxwireless docs regarding iw. I feel like the current wiki pages on wireless (and some of the standard networking wiki stuff) is a bit out of date, but I wanted to see if others concurred.

I'm happy to draft some update edits, though others might be in a better position to state whether there is need.

I'm thinking of:

ip replacing ifconfig (general networking)
iw replacing iwconfig
/run in lieu of /var in various config examples

All these are, I think, current based on existing official ISOs.

I can post this question to the discussion pages as well, of course.

karol · 2011-09-06 22:35:56

Yes, our wiki needs updating, things are moving fast around here and there are few people doing all the work so wiki tends to lag behind.
You can make those edits directly in the wiki article(s), just please comment (in the summary box) any non-obvious edits.

altercation · 2011-09-06 22:49:38

karol, thanks for the quick reply. I'll do that (i've been tweaking the wpa_supplicant page already, but I wanted to take baby steps and double check to ensure that I have my details correct, as well as that they are in line with the current ISOs at minimum).

I also had some thoughts on restructuring some of those wiki pages for clarity. It seemed to me that in any case of "large" structural changes it might be better if I created a new draft article in the wiki for review. That's not something I'm going to jump into just yet, but wanted to field this idea now. Basically I wanted to rewrite some things but don't want to make them officially part of the page via an edit without other's feedback first.

karol · 2011-09-06 22:53:45

You can write a new article on your user (sub)page, like Pointone did with his 'Overviews' subpage.

altercation · 2011-09-07 00:26:30

That looks like a good solution, thanks. Will do.

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wireless wiki pages -- refresh needed?

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Re: wireless wiki pages -- refresh needed?

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Re: wireless wiki pages -- refresh needed?

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