universal online/offline mode

[Justin Mason]

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Jeff Waugh writes:
> <quote who="Lex Hider">
> > > > A universal online/offline mode would be useful to both laptop users
> > > > and those of us still on dialup.
> > > 
> > > This is the kind of stuff that will be doable once we have
> > > NetworkManager or equivalent functionality.
> > 
> > sounds good. Is that likely to be hoary or hoary+1?
> 
> Definitely not hoary, but fairly likely to be hoary+1.

BTW, "whereami" provides a very good "take care of all the
details" package in the meantime. -- just run "sudo whereami"
if your network status changes, and it'll probe various bits of
hardware, and the network itself, to determine where you are.

- --j.
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