[patch] incorrectly detected roaming with WPA...

2006-06-09 Thread Peter Jones
I was at my brother's house for part of last week, and he's using WPA in a location where there are a lot of APs visible, all on different networks (i.e. suburbia). Occasionally NM would try to associate to the wrong AP, and it'd log a message about roaming between two APs. When I look up the

Re: Rekeying and vpnc...

2006-05-03 Thread Peter Jones
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 11:20 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 10:32 -0400, Robert Love wrote: What else do we need (vpnc patches, etc.) to make rekeying work? And no NM changes should break users without a patched vpnc. I asked about this when the patch for vpnc came

Rekeying and vpnc...

2006-05-02 Thread Peter Jones
Dan, may I? Index: vpn-daemons/vpnc/src/nm-vpnc-service.c === RCS file: /cvs/gnome/NetworkManager/vpn-daemons/vpnc/src/nm-vpnc-service.c,v retrieving revision 1.17 diff -u -p -r1.17 nm-vpnc-service.c ---

Re: Will it work under Fedora Core 5?

2006-03-29 Thread Peter Jones
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 07:53 +0200, Trond Husø wrote: Hi list, Fedora Core 5 has just been released, and I might concider upgrading from FC4. But before I do, I need to know if some of my favorite programs works. One of these are Network Manager. So: Does it work under FC5? We ship it and

Re: DHCP timeout patch

2006-03-22 Thread Peter Jones
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:27 -0500, Robert Love wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 16:09 +0100, Radek Vokál wrote: Hi, I've realized that 25sec DHCP timeout limit is not enough on my slow network, so I've proposed a small patch on RH bugzilla for adding new option to NetworkManager, allowing to

Re: DHCP timeout patch

2006-03-22 Thread Peter Jones
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:57 -0500, Darren Albers wrote: I have had other bug reports that users need DHCP timeouts in the 30~40 second range. To be sure, most ifup scripts wait longer than 25s. I think a timeout in the 30-40 second range would also resolve the issues with portfast...

Re: NetworkManager and STP

2006-03-22 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 10:41 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: What's the situation here? NM only cares if the machine's ethernet card has a link or not, which is reported by the driver for the card itself. Once the driver reports that it has a link, NM will attempt to acquire a DHCP address on that

Re: madwifi wext compliance ticket

2006-03-14 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 11:47 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: Quoting Eli Criffield [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I opened a ticket at madwifi.org asking for compliance to wext 19 with the infomation from Dans email. It promptly got changed to minor and to enhancement instead of defect. Anyone using

Re: [patch] make NM survive D-BUS system bus restarts

2006-02-27 Thread Peter Jones
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:16 -0500, Robert Love wrote: I think we can separate should never restart the system bus from foo should be able to survive a system bus restart. The former is good policy, the latter is good programming. We can have both. Well, half right anyway. The former

Re: [patch] Make 'Wireless Networks' menu item inactive

2006-01-30 Thread Peter Jones
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 15:17 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: See attached screenshot and patch. So what do we do when you have more than one wireless card in this case? A horizontal separator between each network card's list would be good... The same question really applies to wired networks as

Re: NM tidbits

2006-01-26 Thread Peter Jones
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 09:29 -0500, Robert Love wrote: On SUSE, you set NM_CONTROLLED=no in the network interface's config file and NM will not handle it. Personally, I don't know why you would ever want NM to not handle an interface ;-) but people asked. Because you're building an AP that

Re: signedness of wireless keys.

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Jones
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 11:02 -0500, Robert Love wrote: Just a thought, as we move to libnm-util, we should settle on a signedness of the char* we use for wireless keys. Sometimes we use char*, sometimes we use unsigned char*. But the bigger problem is that we mix the types via e.g. return

Re: signedness of wireless keys.

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Jones
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 13:49 -0500, Robert Love wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 13:48 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: Sounds good to me unless there are other objections. What kind of annoys me though is that when doing strlen(), strcmp() and whatnot, all the standard library calls take signed

Re: hidden essids and atheros.

2005-11-09 Thread Peter Jones
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 15:14 -0500, Bill Moss wrote: If atheros/madwifi has a big following, maybe someone out there can take a look at that driver relative making it work better with NM. What actually needs to happen is for somebody to write a real driver for it. A couple of people have

Re: named or not?

2005-10-21 Thread Peter Jones
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 01:58 +0200, Tomislav Vujec wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 14:38 -0400, Peter Jones wrote: Both of them should be started by init during boot. I think starting it through this mechanism is just incorrect. Can you elaborate on this? From my point of view, named can

Re: named or not?

2005-10-20 Thread Peter Jones
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 18:39 +0200, Tomislav Vujec wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 14:41 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: No, NM no longer spawns named directly at any point. If named is already running (we check whether the DBUS service that named provides is active or not) then NM will use it. If

Re: NM ignoring DHCP server

2005-09-06 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 10:55 +0200, Rene Rask wrote: Hi list One of the most frustrating this about NM is the DHCP server response policy. After a long and exhausting fight with an Atheros based card I got a lot of: NetworkManager: DHCP: Reply message's source port (5353) was not the DHCP

Re: VPN plugins in /usr/bin?

2005-07-25 Thread Peter Jones
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 01:49 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote: Is there a special reason that the VPN plugins are located in /usr/bin? It seems more correct to have them in /usr/libexec since they are only called by NetworkManager. Yeah, you're right. -- Peter

Re: Two issues with 0.3.5

2005-07-16 Thread Peter Jones
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 13:00 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Hi, I've got two issues with 0.3.5 right now (well, STABLE_0_3 branch): 1) it's not noticing eth0. I've got kernel log messages that the cable is plugged in, but NM never seems to switch to the ethernet device. I'm wondering

Re: suspend/resume wired

2005-07-01 Thread Peter Jones
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 10:47 -0400, Robert Love wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 09:03 -0400, Bill Moss wrote: After an acpi suspend/resume, both e1000 and ipw2200 drivers are loaded but the wired interface is not up. The patch fixes this by bringing up all devices when NM wakes. Ha! I

Re: Repair function

2005-06-27 Thread Peter Jones
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 11:52 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: But you're right -- just re-clicking the network would work.. BUT it would be nice to have better 'scripting' support for suspend/resume to force a new network discovery and re-running DHCP even if the lease is still valid and the SSID

Re: Repair function

2005-06-27 Thread Peter Jones
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 13:00 -0400, Robert Love wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 12:55 -0400, Robert Love wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 12:35 -0400, Robert Love wrote: Hrm, neither of these work for me with NM current CVS. Nevermind. I just looked at the code and realized the errors of my

Re: Repair function

2005-06-27 Thread Peter Jones
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 21:31 -0400, Robert Love wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 15:45 -0400, Peter Jones wrote: Just to be sure -- ethtool shows that the interface has link, right? Yup. I can reproduce it simply by sending the sleep and then the wake D-BUS method, so its definitely NM

Re: [patch] first pass at gnome-keyring support, baby.

2005-06-23 Thread Peter Jones
On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 10:33 -0400, Bill Peck wrote: Is there a technical reason why the keyring can't be unlocked by the login? (Obviously the passwords would have to be the same) I know I'm thinking in fairy land where we might have single sign on one day.. but I can dream can't I? Well,

Re: [patch] more stetic!

2005-06-16 Thread Peter Jones
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 16:22 -0400, Robert Love wrote: Some more stuff from this kernel-hacker-turned-UI-ninja. Some of this might be a bit more contentious, but it is all in the name of the illusive stetic: - Rename Other Wireless Networks... to Connect to Other Wireless

Re: more Head 1.378

2005-06-13 Thread Peter Jones
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 11:44 -0400, Bill Moss wrote: 1. in vpn-daemons/vpnc do 'autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc' Now the VPN Connections menu shows up. I think this means you need to add vpn-daemons to the SUBDIRS line in Makefile.am and rerun autogen.sh -- Peter

Re: more Head 1.378

2005-06-13 Thread Peter Jones
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 13:56 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 13:50 -0400, Peter Jones wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 11:44 -0400, Bill Moss wrote: 1. in vpn-daemons/vpnc do 'autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc' Now the VPN Connections menu shows up. I think

Re: fix for MAC address reading

2005-06-08 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 20:15 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: This makes NM reading the MAC address for real instead of only a few bytes + garbage. Thanks, applied. -- Peter ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org

Re: Late to the party - multiple search domains on the network.

2005-04-12 Thread Peter Jones
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 13:53 +0100, Simon Kelley wrote: . Query a configuration setting from the DHCP server. (using DHCPINFORM, and cached.) I think NM (or, rather, any program in the position of asking for a new lease to be requested by the dhcp client, etc) should be the part doing the

Re: Late to the party - multiple search domains on the network.

2005-04-12 Thread Peter Jones
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 12:07 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: NM enforces security on devices that are not the active device my ensuring that those inactive devices have no IP address and do not show up in the routing table. Just as a side note, this is (slightly) broken by design. The Linux kernel

Re: Late to the party - multiple search domains on the network.

2005-04-12 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 16:35 +0100, Simon Kelley wrote: Peter Jones wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 13:53 +0100, Simon Kelley wrote: . Query a configuration setting from the DHCP server. (using DHCPINFORM, and cached.) I think NM (or, rather, any program in the position of asking

Re: Late to the party - multiple search domains on the network.

2005-04-12 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:25 +0100, Simon Kelley wrote: [...] It's worth pointing that AFAIK no current Unix DHCP implementaions allow use of DHCPINFORM and therefore fetching of DHCP configuration independent of getting a DHCP lease _at_all_. AFAICS ISC's dhcpd has support for it; have a look

Re: NM brings up eth0 even if no wired connection available

2005-04-05 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 14:16 -0700, Marc D. Field wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem with NM: Even though my computer is not connected to an ethernet cable (and my wired interface, eth0, is set NOT to start at boot), NM brings up eth0 automatically. This, of course, screws-up my wireless