USB missing in connect.lunar

[Dennis Veatch]

On Monday 11 August 2008 13:52:24 Dave Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:53:51AM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote:
> > Chris Andrew wrote:
> > > Hi, everyone.
> > >
> > > I'm new to Lunar and the list and am just doing my first install.
> > >
> > > The spare box I am using, connects to my router via a USB port, not
> > > eth0.  I managed to get networking set-up with the help of 'dagbrown'
> > > (many thanks).
> > >
> > > I noticed that /var/lib/lunar/functions/connect.lunar tries different
> > > network options, but seems to be missing USB[1-9].  I placed this in
> > > the file manually, and my USB network connection worked perfectly.
> >
> > rename your usb0 device to eth0 using `ifrename` and it all should work
> > just fine.
>
> That doesn't seem like an acceptable answer.
>
> Is wireless-tools preinstalled on the ISO?  That's the package which
> contains ifrename, and if you don't have that, you need to install it,
> which involves manually patching connect.lunar (this is a TRIVIAL patch
> by the way, it took me ten seconds to figure it out when I was helping
> Chris on #lunar) to find the usb[0-9] network interface.
>
> For another thing, network configuration should happen in the installer,
> and that should be aware of such things as USB network interfaces.  The
> lnet utility exists for a reason--to get things like that right so the
> user doesn't have to waste time manually changing things on their
> system.
>
> --Dave

Looking at the wireless_tools BUILD, is appears, iwevent and ifrename do not 
get copied to /sbin. 

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