Laptop Networking, NetworkManager, ifupdown ---> Merge them?

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Reinhard Tartler">

> The wiki page currently makes the suggestion for taking netapplet or
> something based on that. Is netapplet capable of 802.1x authentication
> and/or WPA for wireless links?
> 
> WPA/WPA2/802.11i is getting more and more common, so it would be a pitty
> if hoary would not be able to get connected to such networks :(

netapplet is just a controller GUI, WPA and friends are handled lower down.

> Btw: is there some way for voting for this functionality for the next
> release?

Patches are the most convincing kind of voting form you can find. :-)

- Jeff

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