Em 05-05-2010 20:29, Pau Espin Pedrol escreveu: > 2010/5/5 Joachim Ott <[email protected]> > >> On 4 May 2010 10:37, Esben Damgaard <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Joachim Ott skrev: >>>> >>>> Hi Esben, >>>> >>>> I'd like to bug you with 2 requests: >>>> >>>> 1. Can you split iliwi into 2 parts, a little daemon started at system >>>> boot, that controls wpa_supplicant and udhcpc and a little gui, where >>>> you can show available networks and manually switch to a different >>>> than the current network? >>>> >>> >>> I've already have had a similar thought. I'm not completely sure I know >> what >>> you mean though.. I would argue like Visti not to keep wifi on all the >> time. >> >> When I turn on the FR, I want an internet connection (well, 95% of the >> time), that is gprs should come up and stay up until I suspend >> manually or I shut down. When one of the networks specified in my >> wpa_supplicant.conf is available, I want it to become the defaultroute >> without manual interaction. When I move on and leave the WLAN range, >> it should fall back to gprs as defaultroute. And then I want a gui to >> check for new WLANs available or to disable the current WLAN if it's >> too slow for me. >> >>> What I would like though is to make a dbus daemon so applications could >> tell >>> Iliwi-the-daemon to connect to configured networks. And then you >> configure >>> your networks in the current gui. >> >> Editing the wpa_supplicant.conf is optional, but I'm much faster with >> vim and wpa_passphrase (yes, I don't want the cleartext-pw in that >> configfile). >> _______________________________________________ >> Shr-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-devel >> > > > Maybe I'm just saying stupid things, I think all this rules/management > should be implemented somehow inside FSO ;) > I mean, for example I want to lookup something in a web page. I open the > browser. The browser automatically requests Internet access to FSO. FSO > tries to search for a way to connect using its configuration/rules, which > may be changed as user preferences, for example in shr-settings. > > The point is.. why to waste time opening a GUI when it should be automated > and only start when requested by app? Showing GUI should be optional, or at > least show it when FSO can't connect it by itlself. > > I'd like to safe battery, and if I need to search something in the net > quickly, not wasting half of that time connecting to networks. > > That would be ideal. The problem is implementing it :P
No, that would be a nightmare, specially at costly internet accesses (eg, 5€/75MB, and this is cheap compared with the non-monthly payment of 1.5€/MB or 3€/day (10MB limit). Rui _______________________________________________ Shr-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-devel
