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Re: Proposal to add patches to netcfg (#682737)



Hello Sorina!

Sorina - Gabriela Sandu <sandu.sorina@gmail.com> (16/09/2012):
> In #682737 [1] is stated that netcfg writes configuration for wireless
> interface in /etc/network/interfaces and therefor Wi-Fi card is not
> managed by Network-Manager.
> 
> For that matter, I would like to propose a patch to add support for
> netcfg to write a Network Manager config file and modify the
> finish-install script so that it copies to target either the nm-config
> file or a full /e/n/i config, according to a reasonable default and
> user's choice. This also contain a new question,
> netcfg/target_network_config, which is asked with a medium priority in
> finish-install, the default being also determined in the finish
> install, such as:
> - if NM is installed, default = NM configuration
> - if NM is not installed and the install was over wired, default = /e/n/i config
> - if NM is not installed and the install was over wireless, default =
> do not configure network
> 
> All the related changes can be found in people/sorina/write_config
> branch [2]. Also, a image containing all the changes can be found at
> [3]. The config file for NM is written according to the specifications
> here [4].
> 
> What do you think about this? Do you believe it could be used at the moment?

while I have little time to look into this, I wanted to say I'm very
happy to see this is being worked on. I've pinged the Gnome folks, and
Michael Biebl should be replying shortly.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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