Issue : wireless networking "on-the-fly"

[Reinhard Tartler]

Lionel Dricot (aka Ploum) wrote:

> I've seen this page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkMagic for a long time now
> but nothing seems to happen.

FWIW, the main problem with this spec is that it relies on
NetworkManager, a piece of software which promises to make Networking on
Linux to suck less. The problem is that NM itself is way from being
mature, so this spec is somehow stuck.

In the current form, I don't see NM stabilizing before feature freeze,
and given that dapper is going to be supported for 3 years on the
desktop, I can really understand to keep NM in universe, and reschedule
this spec to dapper+1.

> I could understand if the problem was an hard one. But, most of the time, I
> solved it by writing a quick and dirty bash script that change the
> /etc/network/interface file and I do several shortcuts that make : "sudo
> ./change_network.sh location1", "sudo ./change_network.sh location2", ...
> I know that things with a lot of D-Bus, Hal, and this sort of things are
> better. My bash script solution is awful. Badly, it's the only one who seem=
> s
> to work for a lot of people...

On my laptop, I found the package 'whereami' to be very useful. If
configured correctly, you just need to issue 'sudo whereami' and you're
done. It is trivial to integrate that to /etc/acpi/resume.sh

> So, can anyone tell me :
>
> - What are the plans for this goal.

I think it is officially defered to dapper+1

> - What are the big problems that I don't understand
NM is not mature enough.

> - What is already done.
NM is already in universe. Feel free to try it out.

> - What must be done (and what I can do ;-) )
Try out NM, report bugs and help fixing current bugs:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bugs


Greetings,
	Reinhard