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

[Daniel Drake]

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?

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.

Daniel