On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:56:15PM -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Dan, > > > > So since this may not happen for a while I figure I can give a shot. > > > But I'm curious where we should get our country alpha2 from? Does LSB > > > define a country has to be somewhere? Maybe the locale? Timezone? > > > Anyway, in the end the user should be able to change the country too. > > > > > > I'm thinking to start by just letting the user pick a country for now. > > > We can figure out where the hell it gets the country by default later > > > but if you have ideas that'd be great. It seems reasonable to ask for > > > this upon installation time (?) > > > > My suggestion: use the current timezone as a fallback unless the user > > has specified the locale somewhere. That can obviously be done in NM or > > lower, ideally we delegate this sort of thing to the supplicant and just > > pass the alpha2 when NM adds the interface to the supplicant. The > > addInterface() call args are just a dict, so it would be trivial to add > > another item in that dict for country code. Since the country code is > > global to the machine it's probably something we should just store in > > the system settings service, and it's also something that probably > > requires privileges to change. > > I would prefer if wpa_supplicant gets a global method for setting the > alpha2 value. It should be dynamic and for me wpa_supplicant is the > right place to handle this value. Since it seems nm uses wpa_supplicant for most work then it seems reasonable to stuff it in there for now, if possible, and if agreeable by Jouni. > The question on how we set this value is a little bit more trickier. Well setting should be an option from NM or any system preference option on a system which lets you update your country. > What we do need is a Location Manager that can use multiple source to > get our current location (WiFi, GSM/UMTS, GPS etc.). I suppose we don't have anything like this yet so this seems to be a new goal. I'll go poke lsb-discuss mailing list. For now I think its as easy as deciding on flatfile where an alpha2 can be put. Later on we can worry about all the ways this can be updated. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
