Hello everyone,

I'm writing an graphic front-end to wireless networking for Linux. So I want this absolutly correct.
I want to set all network settings with my program. I'm doing this with system(). This is what I got so far, can someone check this if there's something I'm forgetting/doing wrong.

setting the wireless network:
system(iwconfig eth1 ESSID "default");
system(iwconfig eth1 ap 00:11:22:33:44:55);
system(iwconfig eth1 mode auto);
system(iwconfig eth1 enc 0000-1111-22);

rest(if not using DHCP)
system(route del eth1 default);
system(route add eth1 default gw 192.168.1.1);

system(ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.8 netmask 255.255.255.0);

rest(if using DHCP)
this I don't know, do I need to ask dhclient to get an address?

With kind regards,
Bart Vullings.

This is how my system is currently running with dhclient:
dhclient -1 -q -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases -pf /var/run/dhclient-eth0.pid -cf /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf eth0

The only thing in my /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf file is:
send host-name "razman"; # temporary ifup addition

Hope this is helpfull. Send me a PM with a link to your program if possible. I'd be interested in helping where I can.

Another thing: iwlist gives a dBm value, and I want to convert this to % which is easier for users.
And I've been searching the net, but I can't find a way to do this.