On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 09:01 +0200, Soren Hansen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:17:47AM -0400, Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: > > After two weeks of frustrating attempts to run nm, finally I could get > > nm (0.6.2-linux2go) working in my z60t thinkpad (running kubuntu > > 6.06.1) with wpa_supplicant (0.5.5) and latest madwifi-ng. I am > > really amazed with nm operations! Its really cool!! > > I'm really amazed at how many people use those packages. :-) > > > In my institute, I need to connect through VPN. With nm's vpnc plugin, > > this is also hassle-free. However, a problem arises when > > wireless connection drops out. Although, nm reconnects to the wireless > > network almost immediately but it doesn't run vpnc. So effectively machine > > remains disconnected. Right now, I have to manually connect to VPN > > every time it happens. So I would like to make a feature request for nm. > > I have the same problem and have been thinking about how to fix it. I'm > thinking about adding a "location" of sorts. When you connect to a new > wireless LAN (identified by router's MAC address) the context menu for > the applet could show a "Configure location" option. In there, you could > tell nm to change connect using a certain vpn connection and also change > your proxy settings accordingly.
I'd really like to get away from location-type "profiles." That's too manual. But we can do this by inference. You likely aren't going to have a wireless setting for "SomeUniversity" if you don't use it fairly often, and if you don't know how you connect to it. So rather than have a "Configure Locations" menu item, which is fairly manual and not necessarily what everyone wants/needs to do, here's what we do instead: For those types of connections which are distinguishable (ie wireless, GPRS/CDMA-over-Bluetooth, PPP, etc) we can tie specific actions/settings, like VPN connections to that connection's NM Configuration, and just Do The Right Thing. For those that _aren't_ distinguishable (ethernet, serial modem, isdn), when the user explicitly sets that NM Configuration up (and not before), we show a submenu of Configurations for the device from which the user can choose. That Configuration may or may not be connected automatically by NM, a behavior which the user will be able to turn off. Dan > Is anything like this in the pipeline? > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
