Re: manual mode options

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 11:00 +0100, Fabio Segale wrote:
> Ok about patch I've understand. For the other question I try to explain
> with an example:
> 
> I've two network profile save in NM:
> 
> 1) called "roaming" with all interfaces in roaming mode and controlled
> by NM
> 
> 2) called "work" with the wireless interface in manual mode and with a
> statical address.

Right, this means NM is disabled.  Your distribution (probably Ubuntu?)
has chosen to disable NetworkManager when you choose manual.

> If I load" work" profile I see all the parameters (address, ssid,
> ecc...) that I have chose with NM in the file /etc/network/interface
> If I load the network profile "roaming" the file /etc/network/interface
> is blank (it's contain only loopback interface).
> Now if I return to the "work" profile in the /etc/network/interface I
> see again the parameters of the wireless interface. in the meantime were
> NM store this parameters?

Network details are stored in GConf when using Gnome.  But details like
ap_scan are things you never should have to see, and NM handles those
things internally.  Thus you need the kernel patch and a backport of the
NM patch to make what you want happen.

Dan

> thnx a lot Dan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Il giorno ven, 25/01/2008 alle 22.28 -0500, Dan Williams ha scritto:
> > On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 00:01 +0100, Fabio Segale wrote:
> > > What I want if it's possible when in manual mode (or in roaming) the
> > > possibility of insert other option  like:
> > > 
> > > wpa-scan-ssid 1
> > > wpa-ap-scan 1 
> > > 
> > > and these additional options saved in the profile so when I switch from
> > > one profile an other I don't have to insert these options manually in
> > > the file /etc/network/interfaces (I use debian like distros)
> > > 
> > > A question, where is saved the configuration parameters of manual a
> > > profile in NM (see my previously post)
> > 
> > I'm not sure how Ubuntu (if that's what you use) has implemented manual
> > mode, but it may not even have anything to do with NM.  Ubuntu has
> > patched NM to completely ignore interfaces that have an entry
> > in /etc/network/interfaces.
> > 
> > If just plain Debian, the static config stuff is stored
> > in /etc/network/interfaces and read into NM when NM starts up.
> > 
> > But again, you really do want to get your distro to apply the kernel
> > scan_capa patch.  That fixes your problem and makes your hack
> > unecessary, because then NM is able to _automatically_ determine whether
> > ap_scan should be 2 or 1.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > 
> > > thnx 
> > > 
> > >  
> > > Il giorno ven, 25/01/2008 alle 15.14 -0500, Dan Williams ha scritto:
> > > > On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 20:52 +0100, fabio segale tiscali it wrote:
> > > > > Hi 
> > > > > 
> > > > > At work I have a wireless network with static address  and wpa-psk
> > > > > protection but and don't broadcast the  ssid. So I've configured nm in
> > > > > manual mode to use the statical ip and save this profile/location but
> > > > > to work I'have to add manualy in the file /etc/network/interface the
> > > > > options wpa-scan-ssid 1!!
> > > > 
> > > > What you really want to do is get your distro to apply the "scan
> > > > capabilities" patch to their kernel, and then backport the NM scan
> > > > capabilities patch to your distro's NM version.
> > > > 
> > > > Dan
> > > > 
> > > > >  It's possible save this option in the profile/location of nm and
> > > > > where nm save/store the configuration of the manual profiles, I know
> > > > > that in roaming save the parameters in gconf  at
> > > > > system/networking/wireless/networks/SSID but where in manual mode???
> > > > > 
> > > > > thnx everyone
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
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