Wireless Network Key

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Aug 7 12:36:31 UTC 2008


Mark Haney wrote:

> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 17:33 -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:
>>> Its much easier for me to open a terminal and execute one of 11 shell
>>> scripts to connect to wherever I'm sitting.
>> 
>> Sorry for a question that maybe sounds dumb, but I gotta ask: easier
>> than what? Easier than NM doing it automatically for you?
>> 
>> 
> 
> See that's the thing.  NM doesn't always do it automatically. It's not
> that transparent.  I've got 5 different secure wireless networks I deal
> with pretty regularly.  Each with different settings.  NM couldn't
> handle them all and keep my NIC from dying.  I inevitably has to reload
> the module and then try it again.  With a script it takes 10 seconds to
> switch between APs.  With NM it might take 20 seconds, or 2 minutes
> depending on if it felt like behaving.

I hear you - that's very clearly the sort of thing NM doesn't handle well,
if at all, but the majority of users probably don't use more than one
wireless, rarely more than two, so scripting for an edge case is probably
not the best overall solution.
-- 
derek





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