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

[James Cameron]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 09:12:12AM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:11:11AM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> 
> >This patch changes the naming of the network connections settings to
> >use the encryption type as well as the SSID, so that actions against
> >AP icons in the mesh box are more consistent.  The name now has a
> >security type appended.
> Do we need to create an "artificial" name? Can't we add either (a
> reference to) the connection or some unique identifier (path?) to
> the WirelessNetworkView instance?

Don't know what you mean, sorry.  Have you an example?

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.

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