Bug#328830: gnome-system-tools: network-admin should be able to setup ad-hoc wifi networks

[Olivier Berger]

Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 1.2.0-2
Severity: wishlist


If used in an environment where there is ad-hoc wifi network, the essid
of the ad-hoc network will be reported as available by network-admin,
which will then try to use it as a managed network (which fails : delays
on DHCP, etc).

Auto-detection of the ad-hoc nature or possibility to explicitely
declare the network type would be great (if it's not possible to
auto-detect ad-hoc).

Best regards

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.17-1          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.10.1-2          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0          0.2.6-6           Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.10.0-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.10.0-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.3.5-6           GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.36-1          Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libgconf2-4            2.10.1-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11            1.2.1-4           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.5.1-2         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.8.0-1           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0      0.4.3-2           GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0            2.10.1-1          The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.10.2-2          A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.10.1-1          The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         2.10.1-5          The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11            1.0.16-13.1       GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0          1.1-4             library for common error values an
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.6.8-1           The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                6.8.2.dfsg.1-6    Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62              6b-10             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnautilus-extension1 2.10.1-4          libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2              1:2.12.2-3        libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.8.2-1           Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0               1.7-5             lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6    X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-2             0.2.13-1          Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6               6.8.2.dfsg.1-6    X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                2.6.21-1          GNOME XML library
ii  perl                   5.8.7-3           Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  system-tools-backends  1.2.0-4           System Tools to manage computer co
ii  xlibs                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-6    X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools recommends:
ii  gnome-control-center          1:2.10.1-6 utilities to configure the GNOME d

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