Fwd: Issue : wireless networking "on-the-fly"

[Sebastien Estienne]

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From: Sebastien Estienne <sebastien.estienne at gmail.com>
Date: Feb 15, 2006 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: Issue : wireless networking "on-the-fly"
To: Vincent Untz <vuntz at ubuntu.com>


On 2/15/06, Vincent Untz <vuntz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, February 14, 2006 21:14, Sebastien Estienne wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be possible to add static ip support in network-manager
> > and get ride of network-admin.
> >
> > Or maybe just remove the wifi part of network-admin, and add a way to
> > access network-admin from nm-applet?
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2006-February/msg00008.html
>
> So basically, right now, NetworkManager developers seem to recommend using
> the system config tools to configure static IP. Adding an option to configure
> the network from the nm-applet menu probably makes sense, then.
>

Yes i read that post on the nm ml, that's why i'm asking it on
ubuntu-desktop ml:
it would be a new entry in the nm-applet menu that would exec network-admin

But personnaly i don't undersantd why they don't want to handle static
ip, it would unify network configuration between each linux
distribution. I can't see why it's a bad thing.

and the fact that n-m doesn't play step on the toe of resolvconf shows
that having 2 systems lead to conflicts.

> I don't know why we would need to remove the wifi part of network-admin,
> though...

not only removing the wifi part, but also the dynamic ip part.
the reason is that network-manager handle these 2 tasks better than
network-admin does.
And having to way to configure the wifi will be confusing for the end user.
Also the wifi part or network-admin is the part that doesn't work well.

All these comments will only make sense when network-manger will be in
main and in the default install. So obviously not a dapper goal.

For a laptop user a tool like network-manager is critical



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