wpa_supplicant
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Oct 5 13:27:23 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 08:53 -0400, Mail List wrote:
>
>
> On Friday 05 October 2007 03:22:19 am Mike C wrote:
> > Aaron Konstam <akonstam <at> sbcglobal.net> writes:
> > > In addition to all these questions , why don't you use NetworkMamager.
>
> When i first tried NM it was not useful at all for me as I need the
> following - but I'd be interested in trying again if it can support these
> functions today (2 years later maybe ... )
>
> a) profiles - managemnt (I assume)
> where i can choose a profile or give it a suite of profiles to scan
> picking fastest available automatically. Easy way to add keys as needed for
> all profiles.
>
> a) static and dynamic IP's
It meets you other requiremennts herein but I am still not sure it works
with a static IP. Some people insist that it works for them but I am
unsure.
>
> b) wired and wireless
>
> c) Simple way to toggle wired/wireless in a given 'profile' - usually
> wired is static and wireless is not in this case.
>
> Last I tried - it was unable to handle any static IP or wired for that
> matter - and the key management was ... well .. not brilliant. That was a
> long time ago ... and when on windows I got very spoiled by IBM access
> connections tool which frankly is the gold standard for what NM should be
> capable of.
>
> I am hopeful it has come a long way ...
>
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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net
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