Re: [PATCH] Add WPA2 to allowed protocols

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 13:57 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 8. August 2007 13:37:07 schrieb Dan Williams:
> > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 10:45 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote:
> > > attached is a patch against trunk which adds WPA2 to the allowed
> > > protocols for wpa_supplicant. Is there any reason why it was not in the
> > > list yet? If not please commit to trunk.
> >
> > Because RSN == WPA2 for wpa_supplicant.  We only need one.  The user
> > agent/applet is free to show what it likes in the UI, but it should pass
> > only RSN to NetworkManager for the configuration.
> 
> Thanks for the explanation ;-)
> 
> Therefore a more appropriate patch would be to replace WPA2 options in NM 
> itself by RSN. Right? Here you are.

Well, all the NMAPSecurity junk will be going away momentarily... :)
It's dumb code (I know, I wrote it!) and there's a much better interface
that Rodrigo will land quite soon, specified by:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2007-February/msg00157.html

The configuration stuff is more specified by the
NetworkManagerConfiguration and NetworkManagerConfigurationSpecification
pages on live.gnome.org.

Dan