[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#438544: network-manager should provide commandline method for selecting and authenticating to wireless networks

[Michael Biebl]

retitle 438544 RFP: cnetworkmanager: command line interface for NetworkManager
reassign 438544 wnpp
thanks

Michael Biebl wrote:
> Benjamin A'Lee wrote:
>> Package: network-manager
>> Version: 0.6.4-8+b1
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Currently, the only way to select or authenticate to a wireless network
>> or is with the Gnome or KDE frontend. It'd be useful if there was a
>> command-line interface (an extension of nm-tool, perhaps) that let you
>> select between the wired or wireless networks, and prompted for the
>> password as necessary, in the same way that nm-applet does.
>>
>> 	Ben
>>
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
> I guess what you are interested in, could be satisfied by cnetworkmanager:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2008-July/msg00126.html
> 
> Maybe we should file a RFP (request for packaging) bug for cnetworkmanager.

I'm going to reassign the bug to wnpp and retitle it appropriately.

FWIW, the Git repo of cnetworkmanager is at:
http://repo.or.cz/w/cnetworkmanager.git

Cheers,
Michael


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