Den 2014-12-17 22:41, Israel skrev: > Hi everyone, > this is more of an e-mail to sort out my thoughts. > > The main issue we are facing is connectivity. > There are two main options here. > Use one of the applets (which do not seem to want to work correctly) > possibly making the base install larger (not too much of a problem) or > do something else. > > SO, if we do something else we need someone who is more of an expert in > setting up networks in Linux. The current network applets cost us > memory to the tune of 5ish MB. This is not a huge deal, however they > don't work correctly... so this is a huge deal. > If someone knows a way to scan for wireless networks from the terminal > and log into them without a network applet (like you might do on the > Mini ISO aside from editing /etc/network/interfaces though that could be > a fine choice as it is a normal file read by the computer on startup... > though it does cause Ubuntu to boot slowly if the network is not > currently available....) > that would be great. It is very easy to make a simple dialog list in > zenity and allow the choice to be passed on to something else. We could > make a script that when you click the icon for networking it does all > the fancy stuff and populates the list.... then when you click it it > connects you... and you can have that saved to do automatically (by > including a custom startup script which would be all generated and > handled automatically) > > Does anyone know how feasible this is? I am thinking Nio or Jörn have a > better idea about whether or not this is possible, or if it would be a > waste of time to try to save a few MB of RAM. >
Hi Israel, I think it is possible, that someone who is good at setting up networks with command line tools can help you create a simple dialog list in zenity. But I don't know the details, maybe you should ask someone with experience from running linux servers. For me it is OK, that a working network applet costs some MB (of used RAM and ISO file size), because it adds so much user friendliness. Best regards Nio -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
