NetworkManager system-wide use

[Dan Williams]

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