Re: WPA status 2006-01-03

[Kay Sievers <kay sievers vrfy org>]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 05:19:29PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Another WPA-related update.
> 
> Major Changes since Dec 22
> ------------------------------
> 
> 1) NMDevice has been refactored and GObject-ified.  Wired and wireless
> are now subclasses.  This should make a Bluetooth DUN device quite a bit
> easier to write, for example.  Anyone?
> 
> 2) The applet respects capabilities for both access points and devices
> 
> 3) Normalization of how generic wireless ciphers in libnm-util return
> hashed key information
> 
> 
> What's left to be done?
> -----------------------
> 
> o Hook up WPA options in the applet
> o Create a supplicant_manager object that controls invocations of
>     wpa_supplicant
>     o Write out correct wpa_supplicant config file and ask the
>         NMAPSecurity objects to write out their security information
>     o Connect to wpa_supplicant's control socket to monitor association
>         status

Dan, can you comment on:
  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2005-December/msg00193.html

and let me know, what you think we need more than this. The code
should work for setting up WPA PSK from NM and listen to wpa_supplicant
events from NM.

Thanks,
Kay