Dan Williams wrote on 07/07/2008 16:00:11 AM: > > On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 15:24 -0400, Grant Williamson wrote: > > Hi, > > are there any plans to add a "Connect" button to NetworkManager 0.7.0 as > > part of the "Edit Connections " panel? > > John W. wondered about that at RH Summit. I'd rather not do that, but > instead try to fix your use-case by using SSID probe-scanning of hidden > networks. > > In the ideal case, the admin would have pre-loaded the list of BSSIDs of > the hidden network into GConf and the user wouldn't have to manually > connect via a button, because NM would be able to match up the scanned > BSSIDs with known SSIDs, and thus would auto-connect. 0.7 needs both > the SSID and a scanned BSSID to complete a connection, so just trying to > connect with the SSID will fail. > > Dan The IBM use case of hidden SSIDs is extreme in that there are over 10000 wireless access points throughout the IBM infrastructure, 200000+ IBMers have wireless credentials and I can walk into any IBM facility around the world and get connected to the IBM network. While all of this is centrally managed and authenticated, pre-loading 10K BSSID into GConf is not a viable option. A "Connect" button on the "Edit Connections" panel is far more palpable.
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