Re: 3G; wireless auth; policies; docs

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 16:26 -0300, rotru br ibm com wrote:
> 
> Where is the spec.html file ??
> I could not find or generate it. 

If you run configure or autogen.sh with --with-docs you should get a
generated spec.html after the build is done.

Dan

> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Rodrigo Trujillo 
> 
> 
> From: 
> Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> 
> To: 
> Jens-Michael Hoffmann
> <J Hoffmann option com> 
> Cc: 
> Alexey Dumov <A Dumov option com>,
> networkmanager mailing list
> <networkmanager-list gnome org>,
> Ferenc Sos <F Sos option com> 
> Date: 
> 07/03/2008 06:19 PM 
> Subject: 
> Re: 3G; wireless auth; policies;
> docs
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:14 +0200, Jens-Michael Hoffmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > first of all let me thank you for your great work and
> NetworkManager.
> 
> Great to see your interest.  I'd like to ensure that Option cards work
> as well as possible with NetworkManager.
> 
> > We are currently evaluating NetworkManager and would like to ask
> some
> > questions:
> > 
> > What is the status of support for 3G devices?
> 
> We have fairly basic support for connecting, disconnecting, setting
> APN,
> PIN/PUK handling, username, password, etc.  Planned support includes
> band preference, roaming preference, etc.  I'd like to implement
> rfkill
> as well but we really do need a standard kernel interface for that
> which
> would live in the 'option' driver in the kernel and hook into the WWAN
> rfkill functionality in 2.6.26 and later.
> 
> > How and where are policies (like choose wired over wireless)
> implemented?
> 
> It's fairly basic right now.  But I'm certainly willing to discuss
> more
> flexible priority handling
> 
> > Is it possible to do connect on demand with NetwokManager?
> 
> Not at this time, I need to figure out how that's supposed to work.
> ISTR it involves creating a 'fake' network device and having userspace
> hooks called whenever something starts sending out traffic or bringing
> the device up, but I actually have no idea.  Definitely something I
> want
> to support though.
> 
> > How is the wireless authentication stuff (WEP/WPA/WPA2) handled?
> > Are there callbacks to get the keys or any other mechanism?
> 
> Yes.  When NM (or the user) wishes to connect to a wireless network
> and
> does not have the required authentication secrets for that network, it
> will ask the daemon that provides that connection.  This is either the
> system settings daemon (nm-system-settings) or the applet running in
> the
> user's session (nm-applet or knetworkmanager).  If the settings deamon
> does not have the secrets required, it will ask the user for them.
> 
> > Is there any kind of documentation apart from the generated
> spec.html?
> > We are especially looking for developer documentation.
> 
> At this time the documentation consists of the generated spec.html,
> which is really only useful if you are intending to write your own
> front-end to NetworkManager (talking over D-Bus of course).  You could
> also use libnm-glib which provides an object-oriented wrapper around
> the
> dbus interface.
> 
> I will be adding doxygen/gtkdoc a bit later this summer to libnm-util
> and libnm-glib, but in the mean time, both Tambet and I would be quite
> happy to answer any questions you might have.
> 
> The D-Bus and libnm-glib APIs are not _quite_ final yet, but they are
> pretty darn close and I don't expect them to change much.  The one
> change I will be making quite soon is using IPv4 prefixes instead of
> IPv4 netmasks through out the API and the UI.
> 
> Dan
> 
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> > Jens-Michael Hoffmann
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