Wifi redirection portals

2008-04-04 Thread Russ Dill
Clearly a complex problem with no simple solution. It sucks that PPP/dialup/etc autentication problems are now in the past, completely, automated etc, and now we must start all over again. There is no simple, non-intrusive way for network manager to know that a network needs some form of

Re: Wifi redirection portals

2008-04-04 Thread Russ Dill
I believe there are already NetworkManagerDispatcher scripts to do this for a number of portal types: http://www.darrenalbers.net/wiki/index.php?title=NetworkManagerScriptsoldid=1408 That is perhaps the most awesomeness conglomeration of technologies I've seen.

Managing interface with random MAC address

2009-03-05 Thread Russ Dill
I have an embedded device known as a beagle board that draws power from my USB port (shows up as usb0). When it boots, it presents itself as a USB ethernet device. I want to share my connection with the device from network manager. Two problems: The first is that network manager sees an unmanaged

Re: Managing interface with random MAC address

2009-03-05 Thread Russ Dill
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Dan Williams d...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 01:25 -0700, Russ Dill wrote: I have an embedded device known as a beagle board that draws power from my USB port (shows up as usb0). When it boots, it presents itself as a USB ethernet device. I want

Re: Managing interface with random MAC address

2009-03-05 Thread Russ Dill
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Kay Sievers kay.siev...@vrfy.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 13:33, Dan Williams d...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 01:25 -0700, Russ Dill wrote: I have an embedded device known as a beagle board that draws power from my USB port (shows up as usb0

Re: Managing interface with random MAC address

2009-03-05 Thread Russ Dill
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Dan Williams d...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 12:47 -0700, Russ Dill wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Dan Williams d...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 01:25 -0700, Russ Dill wrote: I have an embedded device known as a beagle board