2010/1/26 Hugo Melo <[email protected]> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Beso <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 2010/1/26 Cian Masterson <[email protected]> >> >> >>> >>> 2010/1/26 Dan Williams <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> >>>> I was generally moving towards just an applet-like CLI client, and since >>>> people that want to use a CLI for that sort of stuff will obviously be >>>> familiar with CLI-based configuration, they will certainly be expected >>>> to know how to configure either keyfiles or their distro config files. >>>> I don't think we really need a CLI nm-connection-editor at all. >>>> >>>> Dan >>>> >>>> >>> For me one of the huge benefits of NM is in dealing with 3G dongles. I >>> particularly like the interactive way you select country and it prompts you >>> for networks, select network and it prompts you for billing option etc. >>> etc. I don't need to worry about the APN, any strange network-specific >>> settings, or indeed device-specific settings. >>> >>> Would your envisaged CLI solution take care of that or would we need to >>> manually add APN settings and whatnot to config files? I think a CLI >>> interface would be a great idea, but if it doesn't carry over the >>> easy-to-use aspect of NM it would be a shame. >>> >> >> there is cnetworkmanager >> http://vidner.net/martin/software/cnetworkmanager/ >> i haven't tried it personally. you might give it a try and see if it fits >> your needs. >> > It doesn't support VPN or LEAP or 3g. > AFAIK, it works to WPA and WEP only. > >> >> i'm sorry. as i've said i haven't tried it out. you might be able to do everything with a wpa_supplicant script if you want to use it from terminal.
-- dott. ing. beso
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