On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Will Stephenson wrote: > On Tuesday 06 February 2007 07:48, J Sloan said: > > Actually, I was able, after several trials, to get knetworkmanager to > > connect to the wireless access points. I had to make some guesses (for > > instance, where kde says "40 bit key" it really means 64 bits) and it was > > less intuitive than the gnome version, but I must admit that it was > > possible after all to connect. > > We are going to change the "40 bit" label since it's caused plenty of > confusion. What you call a 64 bit key is a 40 bit key with 24 bits of > padding, likewise the 104 bit key is aka 128 bit encryption, and when we > wrote knetworkmanager we just took the IEEE802.11 internal names for the > encryption types. > > Anyway, I'm happy to have kept you on KDE :). > > Will
While you are fixing that, how bout taking a look as to why ifup/ifdown can not be used in parallel with knetworkmanager . I don't think its a good idea to disable standard tools this way. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
