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

[Michael Biebl]

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.

Cheers,
Michael

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