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TODO items for NetworkManager
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Any of these items are of course fair game for anyone, patches are greatly welcome. It also serves as a "what still needs to be done" list.
- WPA support
WPA support is greatly, significantly, mightily needed.
- Access Point link checking thresholds
Wireless link checking could be enhanced to check the signal strength of an access point and switch if the current access point a wireless card is associated with has dropped below say, 20%.
2004-09-08 Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> * panel-applet/no-networkmanager.png panel-applet/Makefile.am panel-applet/NMWirelessApplet.c - Add a "NetworkManager not running" icon and use it - Use new consolidated GConf keys rather than Preferred/Trusted * TODO: update * info-daemon/NetworkManagerInfo.c info-daemon/NetworkManagerInfoDbus.[ch] info-daemon/NetworkManagerInfoPassphraseDialog.c - There are now no longer two separate lists of wireless networks, but one list where each network is "trusted" or not trusted - Add a "getNetworkTrusted" dbus method - "WirelessNetworkUpdate" signal now sent rather than "PreferredNetworkUpdate/TrustedNetworkUpdate" signals - Start freeing some dbus errors (not completed yet) * info-daemon/passphrase.glade - Remove the "don't show" hints for pager and taskbar - Add a title since its going to be in the taskbar * src/NetworkManager.[ch] src/NetworkManagerAPList.[ch] - There are now no longer two separate lists of wireless networks, but one list where each network is "trusted" or not trusted * src/NetworkManagerAP.[ch] - Add get/set "trusted" accessors and data bit * src/NetworkManagerDbus.[ch] - Add function to get "trusted" status of a network from NetworkManagerInfo - Trap new WirelessNetworkUpdate signal rather than old separate signals * src/NetworkManagerDevice.[ch] - Add per-device config data (ip4 addr, gateway, netmask) and accessors - (nm_device_new): Get device config from backend when initializing devices - (nm_device_activation_worker): Split out device configuration on activation to deal with static/dynamic IP differences, and try encryption fallbacks on a device if the encryption method for the best AP is not good - (nm_device_update_best_ap): convert to new consolidated access point lists from NetworkManagerInfo, and copy over latest NMI info to best_ap when setting it * src/NetworkManagerWireless.c - libgcrypt code wasn't converting the MD5 digest to an ascii string, fix it * src/backends/NetworkManagerRedHat.c src/backends/NetworkManagerSystem.h - (nm_system_device_update_config_info): Add function to get device configuration from system data in ifcfg-* files * src/backends/NetworkManagerDebian.c src/backends/NetworkManagerGentoo.c src/backends/NetworkManagerSlackware.c - Add stub functions for getting device configuration git-svn-id: http://svn-archive.gnome.org/svn/NetworkManager/trunk@131 4912f4e0-d625-0410-9fb7-b9a5a253dbdc
2004-09-08 18:14:42 +00:00
- Gracefully recover from dbus and hal dropouts
2004-09-08 Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> * panel-applet/no-networkmanager.png panel-applet/Makefile.am panel-applet/NMWirelessApplet.c - Add a "NetworkManager not running" icon and use it - Use new consolidated GConf keys rather than Preferred/Trusted * TODO: update * info-daemon/NetworkManagerInfo.c info-daemon/NetworkManagerInfoDbus.[ch] info-daemon/NetworkManagerInfoPassphraseDialog.c - There are now no longer two separate lists of wireless networks, but one list where each network is "trusted" or not trusted - Add a "getNetworkTrusted" dbus method - "WirelessNetworkUpdate" signal now sent rather than "PreferredNetworkUpdate/TrustedNetworkUpdate" signals - Start freeing some dbus errors (not completed yet) * info-daemon/passphrase.glade - Remove the "don't show" hints for pager and taskbar - Add a title since its going to be in the taskbar * src/NetworkManager.[ch] src/NetworkManagerAPList.[ch] - There are now no longer two separate lists of wireless networks, but one list where each network is "trusted" or not trusted * src/NetworkManagerAP.[ch] - Add get/set "trusted" accessors and data bit * src/NetworkManagerDbus.[ch] - Add function to get "trusted" status of a network from NetworkManagerInfo - Trap new WirelessNetworkUpdate signal rather than old separate signals * src/NetworkManagerDevice.[ch] - Add per-device config data (ip4 addr, gateway, netmask) and accessors - (nm_device_new): Get device config from backend when initializing devices - (nm_device_activation_worker): Split out device configuration on activation to deal with static/dynamic IP differences, and try encryption fallbacks on a device if the encryption method for the best AP is not good - (nm_device_update_best_ap): convert to new consolidated access point lists from NetworkManagerInfo, and copy over latest NMI info to best_ap when setting it * src/NetworkManagerWireless.c - libgcrypt code wasn't converting the MD5 digest to an ascii string, fix it * src/backends/NetworkManagerRedHat.c src/backends/NetworkManagerSystem.h - (nm_system_device_update_config_info): Add function to get device configuration from system data in ifcfg-* files * src/backends/NetworkManagerDebian.c src/backends/NetworkManagerGentoo.c src/backends/NetworkManagerSlackware.c - Add stub functions for getting device configuration git-svn-id: http://svn-archive.gnome.org/svn/NetworkManager/trunk@131 4912f4e0-d625-0410-9fb7-b9a5a253dbdc
2004-09-08 18:14:42 +00:00
There is currently no logic to gracefully recover from a crashed/killed dbus or hal. There are dbus functions for notification when services come up and go away which could be used here. Remeber that when dbus dies, hal also dies at the moment.
- Support 40/64 bit passphrases
Allow user to enter passphrases and convert them to 40/64 bit WEP keys on the fly. Unfortunately, the algorithm for 40/64 bit passphrases is kind of messy.