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Well, it looks like start of Network Manager reimplementation...

Well, it looks like start of Network Manager reimplementation...

Posted Nov 17, 2011 12:51 UTC (Thu) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)
In reply to: Well, it looks like start of Network Manager reimplementation... by mathstuf
Parent article: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

I find that with wpa_supplicant I can ifup wlan0 on boot and then walk between networks without manual ifdown or ifup and stay connected, so long as some kind of configuration for the network exists. Having a generic fallback for open networks is really all you need; I'm surprised that such a fallback isn't supplied by default by wpa_supplicant.


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Well, it looks like start of Network Manager reimplementation...

Posted Nov 17, 2011 23:21 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

True, but I don't add a catch-all open network section simply because I'd like some notification when that happens.

Now if wpa_supplicant could automatically do RADIUS web logins instead of forcing me to realize that things aren't going through and then opening uzbl before firing offlineimap off, that'd be awesome.

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