Proposal to add patches to netcfg (#682737)

[Cyril Brulebois]

Sorina - Gabriela Sandu <sandu.sorina at gmail.com> (16/09/2012):
> Hello!
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=682737
> [2] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/netcfg.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/people/sorina/write_config
> [3] http://swarm.cs.pub.ro/~sorina/debian/images/08_14_write_config.iso
> [4] http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/settings-spec-08.html

NM/Gnome folks:

sorry to be a pain but we really need an answer *NOW*. Michael? Anyone else?

Mraw,
KiBi.
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