[Sugar-devel] NetworkManager 0.8 ---> 0.9

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 12 April 2011 00:37, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> NetworkManager broke API compatibility with the latest version 0.9 [1][2].
> This means we have to switch to the new API sooner or later. F15, which
> includes NM 0.9, does hit that issue already - hence you can not connect to
> an AP anymore.
>
> This is an item that should go into 0.94 and F15 might carry a patch (if we
> get one - help welcome).
>
> Regards,
>   Simon
>
> [1]
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2011-March/msg00020.html
> [2]
> http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/migrating-to-09/ref-migrating.html

Are there any plans to support NetworkManager more wholly?

Sugar (at least the 0.84 on OLPC OS) seems to store network
information separately, which means that we can't leverage gconf or
share settings with the system or GNOME. It would be much easier if
Sugar stored network settings in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/. This
would let us leverage the full feature set of NetworkManager, and it
also lets connections be shared with GNOME.


Sridhar Dhanapalan
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