Re: [REQ] Adding support for simultaneous wireless networks

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:37 +0100, Bjoern Martensen wrote:
> a friend of mine has a desktop pc with 2 ethernet devices onboard and
> uses one to connect to his dsl modem and one to share this pppoe
> connection over to his xbox. being able to share a connection not only
> wired <-> wifi but also wired <-> wired would be nice in such
> situations and it can't be done with the current state.

NM 0.7 allows connection sharing between arbitrary devices.

Dan

> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Jerone Young
> <jerone young canonical com> wrote:
> > This is not a standard use case. The fact is most consumers would have
> > the wireless printer connected to their wifi network. I myself have a
> > wireless printer and it connects to my wifi network, where I just access
> > it like a standard network printer.
> >
> > I'm a little confused on exactly why you are connecting to your printer
> > via ad-hoc mode, unless you do not have a wifi access point. To which
> > once you did get one, you need to connect the printer to the access
> > point.
> >
> > The only common case for this connecting to a printer wirelessly
> > directly is via bluetooth, but this is handled by bluez and not
> > network-manager. Also devices that do support it, handle this easily.
> >
> > Supporting something like this actually confuses users. How do you know
> > which connection to get to the internet from ? .. it makes little
> > since ...
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 00:53 -0600, Brent Newland wrote:
> >> I work at a retail store selling computers, and I can tell you that
> >> all the printer manufacturer's seem to be going wireless. Out of the
> >> latest selection of HP and Canon printers we carry, nearly all of the
> >> consumer level machines have built in wireless.
> >>
> >> Alot of people expect to be able to connect to the internet (whether
> >> it's through a wireless network, a cell phone card, a cable) and also
> >> be able to connect to their printer at the same time to print
> >> wirelessly, but that's not currently an easy thing to configure.
> >>
> >> What's even worse is if you want to connect to a wireless network while being connected to a wireless printer in ad-hoc mode. Currently, to do this you would have to use airtun-ng (this is the only program I've found which does this):
> >> http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=airtun-ng&DokuWiki=70b54c7d04564ca6bcee0f8746f3044d#connecting_to_two_access_points
> >>
> >> That'll let you connect to two wireless networks as long as they are on the same channel.
> >>
> >>
> >> I think that these would both be excellent features to have (connect to two wireless networks with one card to load balance/access resources on both networks - useful for copying between networks as well - and easily setting up an ad-hoc connection to a printer with another connection as the primary; all via the networkmanager GUI, of course). I'm sure that in the near future there will be a lot more questions like these across the different distros.
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