Configuring wireless adapters

[Philip Prindeville]

Hi.

I'm a little confused about wireless.  I'm trying to build some
installer scripts in a ks.cfg file for FC5, for a Dell Lattitude L610.
This beast has an Intel 2915ABG wireless NIC.

The issue is that the default package set that I configure doesn't
include the ATRPMS ipw2200 package that I need to get this
detected and running, so it isn't until the %post script that I
enable the ATRPMS repository for yum, and start grabbing
packages, writing out config files for wpa_supplicant, etc. but
by then it's too late for "network --device iwlan0 ..." (or
whatever... in this case eth1) to take effect.

Since you can't specify --optional on network lines (at least not
yet) and preconfigure them in the case of missing drivers or
removable (PCMCIA) NIC cards, then I'm not sure what the
solution is.  I'd like to be able to get the file as:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-iwlan0

(or whatever) written out in a semi-automatic way, but I
can't figure out how to do that.

Note also that I upgrade the kernel in my %post script, and
when I fetch packages (including kernel -kmdl packages) for
the wireless NIC, they are for the highest numbered version
of the OS (that which we will boot into when we complete
the install) and not the baseline version (no, I don't want to
statically put a replacement kernel version onto the DVD,
because it will only be "latest" for a matter of days).

What am I missing?

-Philip