NetworkManager system-wide use

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri May 26 06:19:34 UTC 2006


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. :-)

        Kevin Kofler




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