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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