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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
