On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 20:18 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > Are there any real-world network profiles which cannot be detected? My > laptop brings eth0 (built-in ethernet) up when I plug a wire in and > performs ARP pings to detect where it is, configuring itself and > resetting various applications on demand. This is done by > ifplugd/guessnet/resolvconf and works very well.
I typically only use wireless. All of the networks I connect to use a different WEP key. The difference between my profiles is basically a different essid and WEP key. I suppose it would be possible to cycle through all the different keys and see if a connection to the given network is established, but I have no idea how practical that is. In some cases, (actually a lot of cases around here, where everybody seems to have a wireless AP) multiple networks might be available and you want to pick a specific one. The goal, as much as I hate to say it, would be something very similar to Windows XP's wireless networking configuration tool. Linux wlan drivers seem to lack support for network scanning in a lot of instances though. Also, some mechanism needs to be put in place to allow the user to select network settings without needing to enter a password, there could be multiple levels of security from "connect to any network you please" to "connect to any network you please as long as it is one of the following pre-configured choices" -Mark
