On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 16:26 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Where is the spec.html file ?? > I could not find or generate it.
If you run configure or autogen.sh with --with-docs you should get a generated spec.html after the build is done. Dan > > Thanks > > Rodrigo Trujillo > > > From: > Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Jens-Michael Hoffmann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Alexey Dumov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > networkmanager mailing list > <networkmanager-list@gnome.org>, > Ferenc Sos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: > 07/03/2008 06:19 PM > Subject: > Re: 3G; wireless auth; policies; > docs > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:14 +0200, Jens-Michael Hoffmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > first of all let me thank you for your great work and > NetworkManager. > > Great to see your interest. I'd like to ensure that Option cards work > as well as possible with NetworkManager. > > > We are currently evaluating NetworkManager and would like to ask > some > > questions: > > > > What is the status of support for 3G devices? > > We have fairly basic support for connecting, disconnecting, setting > APN, > PIN/PUK handling, username, password, etc. Planned support includes > band preference, roaming preference, etc. I'd like to implement > rfkill > as well but we really do need a standard kernel interface for that > which > would live in the 'option' driver in the kernel and hook into the WWAN > rfkill functionality in 2.6.26 and later. > > > How and where are policies (like choose wired over wireless) > implemented? > > It's fairly basic right now. But I'm certainly willing to discuss > more > flexible priority handling > > > Is it possible to do connect on demand with NetwokManager? > > Not at this time, I need to figure out how that's supposed to work. > ISTR it involves creating a 'fake' network device and having userspace > hooks called whenever something starts sending out traffic or bringing > the device up, but I actually have no idea. Definitely something I > want > to support though. > > > How is the wireless authentication stuff (WEP/WPA/WPA2) handled? > > Are there callbacks to get the keys or any other mechanism? > > Yes. When NM (or the user) wishes to connect to a wireless network > and > does not have the required authentication secrets for that network, it > will ask the daemon that provides that connection. This is either the > system settings daemon (nm-system-settings) or the applet running in > the > user's session (nm-applet or knetworkmanager). If the settings deamon > does not have the secrets required, it will ask the user for them. > > > Is there any kind of documentation apart from the generated > spec.html? > > We are especially looking for developer documentation. > > At this time the documentation consists of the generated spec.html, > which is really only useful if you are intending to write your own > front-end to NetworkManager (talking over D-Bus of course). You could > also use libnm-glib which provides an object-oriented wrapper around > the > dbus interface. > > I will be adding doxygen/gtkdoc a bit later this summer to libnm-util > and libnm-glib, but in the mean time, both Tambet and I would be quite > happy to answer any questions you might have. > > The D-Bus and libnm-glib APIs are not _quite_ final yet, but they are > pretty darn close and I don't expect them to change much. The one > change I will be making quite soon is using IPv4 prefixes instead of > IPv4 netmasks through out the API and the UI. > > Dan > > > > > Best regards > > > > Jens-Michael Hoffmann > > _______________________________________________ > > NetworkManager-list mailing list > > NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list