It seems that HAL >= 0.5.10 provides a DBus interface called KillSwitch that allow to monitor and toggle network interfaces. This should yet use PolicyKit and it seems there is basic support to Dell laptops[1]
[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal- commit/2008-January/004128.html -- Use PolicyKit in aircraft-manager https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354377 You received this bug notification because you are a member of OEM Services QA, which is subscribed to The Dell Mini Project. Status in Dell Inspiron Mini with Custom Dell UI: Confirmed Bug description: The aircraft manager utility is great, but it forces you to enter the password any time you like to swith wifi on/off. The PolicyKit framework could be used instead plain gksu, allowing users to automatically authenticate when launching the aircraft-manager (if this is, of course, the behavior desired by user). See http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/ for more details. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~oem-qa Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~oem-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
