This is not a standard use case. The fact is most consumers would have the wireless printer connected to their wifi network. I myself have a wireless printer and it connects to my wifi network, where I just access it like a standard network printer. I'm a little confused on exactly why you are connecting to your printer via ad-hoc mode, unless you do not have a wifi access point. To which once you did get one, you need to connect the printer to the access point. The only common case for this connecting to a printer wirelessly directly is via bluetooth, but this is handled by bluez and not network-manager. Also devices that do support it, handle this easily. Supporting something like this actually confuses users. How do you know which connection to get to the internet from ? .. it makes little since ... On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 00:53 -0600, Brent Newland wrote: > I work at a retail store selling computers, and I can tell you that > all the printer manufacturer's seem to be going wireless. Out of the > latest selection of HP and Canon printers we carry, nearly all of the > consumer level machines have built in wireless. > > Alot of people expect to be able to connect to the internet (whether > it's through a wireless network, a cell phone card, a cable) and also > be able to connect to their printer at the same time to print > wirelessly, but that's not currently an easy thing to configure. > > What's even worse is if you want to connect to a wireless network while being connected to a wireless printer in ad-hoc mode. Currently, to do this you would have to use airtun-ng (this is the only program I've found which does this): > http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=airtun-ng&DokuWiki=70b54c7d04564ca6bcee0f8746f3044d#connecting_to_two_access_points > > That'll let you connect to two wireless networks as long as they are on the same channel. > > > I think that these would both be excellent features to have (connect to two wireless networks with one card to load balance/access resources on both networks - useful for copying between networks as well - and easily setting up an ad-hoc connection to a printer with another connection as the primary; all via the networkmanager GUI, of course). I'm sure that in the near future there will be a lot more questions like these across the different distros. > _________________________________________________________________ > Store, manage and share up to 5GB with Windows Live SkyDrive. > http://skydrive.live.com/welcome.aspx?provision=1?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_skydrive_102008 > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
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