On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 06:19 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > FYI, I found this while browsing the accepted SoC applications: > http://code.google.com/soc/gentoo/appinfo.html?csaid=1875FC7DA1FE03E4 > > > If this is completed, work should be done on WiFi key handling: currently, > > NetworkManager will ask the user for the WEP or WPA key of the wireless > > network it connects to every time it connects, which isn't very > > user-friendly. As Gentoo allows one to configure wireless network settings > > in /etc/conf.d/wireless, the keys could be retrieved from that file. Some > > changes to NetworkManager's core will be necessary to support this though, > > which implies one can't be sure it'll be accepted by the core maintainers. > > Looks like you can take this off your TODO. :-) Sort of... We've already got plans in this area, but of course if somebody else wants to fix it, that's great :) http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerToDo?action=show See the top item there. We're not necessarily going to be pulling keys from config files here; instead it will be a slightly larger scoped solution. The idea here is to do it right, not just hack in a shim over the existing (somewhat-broken shellscript hacktower hell) config stuff that many distros already have. Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
