On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 10:46 +0000, Simon Kelley wrote:
> Chase Venters wrote:
>
> > As an aside to this whole thing, I know we're talking about *kernel* wireless
> > but it's worthless to most people without good userland support as well.
> > Anyone have any thoughts and feelings on what things look like on the
> > desktop? I think if we work closely with some desktop people, we can shepard
> > in some wonderful new desktop support on top of the new netlink API.
> >
>
> An obvious place to start is the NetworkManager project. They should be
> asked the obvious "what do you need" and "does this provide it"
> questions. Dan Williams has been active recently producing small kernel
> patches which make the kernel side stuff work better with NM, so he
> might be a good contact to start with.
We are actually moving NM on top of wpa_supplicant for the actual
connection process. So essentially, while NM does talk to the card for
information and scanning, wpa_supplicant provides the bulk of the actual
connection process control. Any card that works with wpa_supplicant
should then work with NetworkManager.
Novel's is working on a KDE applet for NM which should hit CVS soon, I
think.
Dan
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