#262624 has been annoying me for a while. The other weekend when AJ was here, we spent one night pulling apart iwconfig and comparing how it sets the WEP key to how netcfg was doing it (and not doing it successfully it seems). The result was a very rudimentary C program that would unset or set a WEP key.
This afternoon, I finally sat down and fiddled around with the netcfg source to work up a patch, and submitted it.
One of the problems I have with doing d-i work is I lack sufficient d-i juju to actually rebuild the entire thing. I can build udebs, and I can build the d-i initrd component, but I'm buggered if I can build a new CD. This makes it impossible to test changes that I make, which really sucks. I've gone as far as trying to squeeze a modified udeb onto an existing ISO, but then the checksums don't match and the the installer barfs at me. It's rather frustrating... I think I need to build up my debian-cd zen.