[Sugar-devel] [PATCH v2][sucrose-0.94][RFC] Add capability to connect to WPA/WPA2-Enterprise networks

[Simon Schampijer]

Hi Anish,

thanks for the patch.

On 09/12/11 12:08, Anish Mangal wrote:
> On Fri 09 Dec 2011 06:31:51 PM IST, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> This really needs to be ported to the master branch which now used
>> NetworkManager 0.9

For any code to land in a stable branch (here 0.94) it needs to go into 
the master branch first. The 0.94 branch is frozen, so should only see 
bug fixes now. There might be exceptions but there should be good 
reasons for that, in 99.9% of the cases we shouldn't.

> I guess there is great work being done by dsd et. al to get NM 0.9
> stuff working with sugar/0.96+. I'd be happy to assist with reviewing
> porting etc. if upstream thinks this a valuable addition for mainline.
> To that end [cc+=erikos, dsd]
>
> The patch however, is a departure from the current mainline efforts to
> _integrate_ network settings between gnome and sugar. It is more on the
> lines of 0.94 networking sugar code where sugar stores its own network
> settings in connections.cfg
>
> This feature is originally being developed for f14/0.94.1 based dx3
> based on a request from OLPC-Australia. At this moment, I'd consider
> trying to upstream this for the sucrose-0.94 branch.

Interesting, so the Australian deployment is using enterprise WPA/WPA2 
in their deployment? I thought that would be in use mostly in the 
corporate world. For background info maybe you can illustrate the usage 
a bit with this real world example.

Regards,
    Simon