Re: Questions about 0.5.1

[Giuseppe Castagna <Giuseppe Castagna ens fr>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 10:22 +0200, Giuseppe Castagna wrote:
>
> > computer, which is a little boring. Is it possible to avoid to type a passwd for 
> > the WEP key, either by making NM not to use the keyring or the keyring not to 
> > ask the passwd. Alternatively is it possible to have a single passwd request for 
> > the keyring and the ssh-askpasswd?
>
>
> This is more a bug with gnome-keyring, such that if you log in, and your
> keyring password is the same as your login password, your keyring
> probably should be unlocked.  It's annoying, yes.


Apparently we are not the only two persons to think this is a gnome-keyring bug:
see

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125682

But if they do not "fix" it probably the NM user should be given the option not 
to use gnome-keyring

> > 2) I live in a densely inhabited neighborhood, thus in my living room besides my 
> > wife I also get 4 other wireless networks of my neighbors. Since I do not 
^^^^^^^
  |
A charming typo ... I meant wifi ;-)


> > broadcast my ESSID then as soon as I connect NM tries to connect on my neighbors 
> > networks. Is it possible to force NM to try first the last used network 


[snip]

> What you can do right now is to remove the entries in GConf that refer
> to your neighbors wireless networks.  You must have connected to them at
> least once, since NM won't connect to a network you haven't explicitly
> chosen from the menu.  If you do that, but leave in the entry for your
> access point, NM will start up and connect to your access point only.


Worked as a charm. Thank you.

> > 3) Finally let me add that NM is great. It was on the top of my wishlist and as 
> > it is it nearly matches all my needs. I really needed it since I travel a lot 
> > attending for instance conferences and visiting other labs. So I use a lot of 
> > different wifi networks. But most of them however are short-lived (e.g. 
> > conferences) so I was wondering whether it is possible to delete existing 
> > configurations (I'm afraid of Window's always growing register syndrom :-) ), 
> > without using e.g. gnomeconf.
>
>
> We do very much need a small app to change/remove wireless networks.
> Any volunteers?  Python would be a good choice.  I don't think the
> applet should include this functionality, but I'm open to debate.

A "Preference" entry that launches /usr/bin/nm-preferences? Hope I'll find the 
time during Xmas break to try to write it down (but do not count on that).

> > 4) Now that the top of my wishlist is erased, the next item becomes bluetooth 
> > management. Is it possible to use the same NM technology to handle BT 
> > connections? I'm not speaking just about networking (I saw the discussion in the 
> > archives) but also other devices. For instance I use a BT for Palm, mouse and 
> > headset, but everytime I have to handle connections by scripts. Any plans about 
> > this kind of support?
>
>
> Yes, but Chris Aillon needs to get his GObject patch done first.  I'd
> really hate to add Bluetooth support with NMDevice like it is right now.
> We need to convert NMDevice into a real GObject so that we can subclass
> it for wireless, wired, bluetooth, etc devices.


Agree.

Thanks again

---Beppe---