[Sugar-devel] [PATCH 3/4] fix AP association failure after removing encryption #1674

[James Cameron]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:59:18PM -0300, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On 22 April 2010 23:01, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> > The name has multiple purposes in Sugar and Network Manager
> > interaction:
> >
> > 1. ?it identifies a connection (and Sugar was using it to identify an
> > essid instead, before this patch),
> >
> > 2. ?it appears in Network Manager logs,
> >
> > 3. ?it is stored in connections.cfg as a section key.
> 
> So it breaks compatibility with the old file format. Your saved
> secrets won't work after upgrading?

Yes.

> If we're going to do this it would make sense to use the network ID,
> already used to separate APs into networks uniquely based on name,
> encryption, etc.

Yes, but the additional work might delay a solution.  Do you have a
patch?

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/