[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#578610: network-manager: please make dhcp_timeout and association timeout configurable

[Patrick Winnertz]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8-1winnie1
Severity: wishlist

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As in our university the wlan hotspots needs a bit longer to associate a timeout of 
25 seconds is too less. However setting it statically for everybody to e.g. 40 seconds
is too much in most cases, thus I would like to ask you if you could make this configurable 
either via a configuration file or via nm-applet (or knetworkmanager). 

This holds true also for the dhcp timeout, which is per default 45 seconds. I'll need at our
university at least a timeout of 60 seconds, which is again, too much for the normal user.

Greetings
Winnie

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33+winnie1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.112        add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                        1.2.24-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcp3-client                3.1.3-2      DHCP client
ii  ifupdown                    0.6.10       high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6                       2.10.2-6     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.2.24-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.86-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                 1.4.5-2      LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.24.0-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                 2.8.6-1      the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgudev-1.0-0              151-3        GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl1                      1.1-5        library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                 0.8-1winnie1 network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                 0.8-1winnie1 network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0       0.96-2       PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                    2.16.2-0     Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-23       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                        151-3        /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant               0.6.10-2     client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
pn  dnsmasq-base               <none>        (no description available)
ii  iptables                   1.4.6-2       administration tools for packet fi
ii  modemmanager               0.3-2         D-Bus service for managing modems
ii  network-manager-gnome      0.8-1         network management framework (GNOM
ii  policykit-1                0.96-2        framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp                        2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd                 0.6.25-3   Avahi IPv4LL network address confi

- -- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf changed [not included]

- -- no debconf information

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