On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 06:19 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> FYI, I found this while browsing the accepted SoC applications:
>
http://code.google.com/soc/gentoo/appinfo.html?csaid=1875FC7DA1FE03E4
>
>
>> If this is completed, work should be done on WiFi key handling: currently,
>> NetworkManager will ask the user for the WEP or WPA key of the wireless
>> network it connects to every time it connects, which isn't very
>> user-friendly. As Gentoo allows one to configure wireless network settings
>> in /etc/conf.d/wireless, the keys could be retrieved from that file. Some
>> changes to NetworkManager's core will be necessary to support this though,
>> which implies one can't be sure it'll be accepted by the core
maintainers.
>>
> Looks like you can take this off your TODO. :-)
>
Sort of... We've already got plans in this area, but of course if
somebody else wants to fix it, that's great :)
http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerToDo?action=show
See the top item there. We're not necessarily going to be pulling keys
from config files here; instead it will be a slightly larger scoped
solution. The idea here is to do it right, not just hack in a shim over
the existing (somewhat-broken shellscript hacktower hell) config stuff
that many distros already have.
Dan
Sorry for the slight digression, but can someone explain to me why
NetworkManager has a dependency on wpa_supplicant? Not all
wireless networks use WEP/WPA (some are wide open). Further,
not all networked machines (like my desktop) have Wireless NIC's.
It would seem to be an unnecessary (and unfounded) dependency.
-Philip