Re: Connect Button

[Grant Williamson <traxtopel gmail com>]

Dan, I agree totally with you that an autoconnect is the way forward, 
however until these issues are resolved with connecting, an advanced 
option of a connect button, would certainly help us. If we were to 
provide you with a patch would you consider adding it?

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 15:24 -0400, Grant Williamson wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> > are there any plans to add a "Connect" button to NetworkManager 0.7.0 as 
> > part of the "Edit Connections " panel?
> >     
>
> John W. wondered about that at RH Summit.  I'd rather not do that, but
> instead try to fix your use-case by using SSID probe-scanning of hidden
> networks.
>
> In the ideal case, the admin would have pre-loaded the list of BSSIDs of
> the hidden network into GConf and the user wouldn't have to manually
> connect via a button, because NM would be able to match up the scanned
> BSSIDs with known SSIDs, and thus would auto-connect.  0.7 needs both
> the SSID and a scanned BSSID to complete a connection, so just trying to
> connect with the SSID will fail.
>
> Dan
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