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

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le jeudi 16 février 2006 à 16:13 +0100, Lionel Dricot (aka Ploum) a
écrit :

> * The strenght of my wifi is only 23% under NM and 65% in the "normal"
> wifi applet. Strange ?

what does "iwconfig" say by example?

> * What if I don't want to use DHCP but a static IP instead ? I didn't
> find how to do this. 

Setting a static IP works for me but put a blank resolv.conf at the
moment, that's supposed to be fixed with next upload (which is planned
for today)

> * What is the interaction with the standard ifconfig way ?

I'm not sure, you may want to read the code for that :)

> * Is this any real applet instead of cluttering the notification
> area ? (Ok ;-) this is a minor problem. Nevermind !)

No

> * What are the main issues that keep people to consider it for Breezy 

It doesn't work with all the drivers (atheros by example). This has been
discussed during the distribution team meeting today, Scott who works on
it will mail the mailing list to explain what are the issue with it.
That's likely it'll be promoted for main (maybe ship) but not part of
the default desktop due to that. 


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher