Re: dnsmasq

2008-09-26 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 03:29, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The point is that users need a level of control over how name resolution is > done. Once you resort to adding/removing entries from resolv.conf you've > completely removed the possibility of retaining local control over name > r

Re: dnsmasq

2008-09-26 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 02:59, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hm. So what exactly did you mean by saying "the user needs some level of > control over which connections are allowed to update resolv.conf" ? Certainly not control of packet routing. All I meant by that statement, and it's ha

Re: dnsmasq

2008-09-25 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 01:28, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I think we're both in agreement on this. Note that internally, NM knows > which IP config info came from which provider. My patch for dnsmasq support > preserves the distinction between DNS servers received from a VPN and th

Re: dnsmasq

2008-09-25 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 23:34, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Perhaps it seems that way to you, but consider the case where someone >> might want DNS fixed (ie. to a local caching server that is configured >> to use opendns, 4.2.2.1, etc.) whilst using a wifi hotspot, but when >> in a tig

Re: dnsmasq

2008-09-25 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 18:27, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From: "Jim Popovitch"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> How about a NM option to disable updating of resolv.conf. This >> should be settable in 3 different places: > >>

Re: dnsmasq

2008-09-25 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 13:40, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) NM needs to write out an /etc/resolv.conf that points to 127.0.0.1 > when people are using a local caching nameserver Yes! (please) > 2) What do we do when some other process (bind or a non-dbus-enabled > dnsmasq) is alre

Re: save password

2008-09-24 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 00:05, Dominik Schmich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whoops sry, here are my infos: > Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) > Kernel: 2.6.24-19-generic i686 GNU/Linux > keyring: 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 > > With the old 0.6 version which was delivered by Ubuntu I was able to > save the password (it was

Re: save password

2008-09-24 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 22:53, Dominik Schmich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi List, > > is there any reason why the passwords for the wifi's aren't saved? I'm > connecting to a WPA2-Enterprise network which works fine with me. The > only bad thing is, I always have to reenter the password again.

Re: upgrading from NM .6 to .7

2008-09-08 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 15:16, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 11:39 -0500, Trey Nolen wrote: >> I am running Ubuntu 8.04. I upgraded to Networkmanager .7 recently. I >> had about 125 or so PPTP VPN's setup, and when NM .7 installed, they >> were gone. The info is st

Re: Experiences from a user

2007-01-06 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 09:46 +, João Miguel Neves wrote: > 2) One of the networks I usually connect to uses nocat (it redirects all > web requests to a form where you need to authenticate). Is there a way > to setup a plugin for a specific network/access point? I'd like to have > network manager

resolv.conf

2007-01-04 Thread Jim Popovitch
Is there a way in NM to add custom/addition settings to resolv.conf when NM connects to APs? For instance, I always want a certain DNS search pattern prefix in addition to what DHCP server du'jour dictates. Thanks, -Jim P. ___ NetworkManager-list ma

Re: A couple of minor issues

2006-12-24 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 18:28 +0100, Peter Roediger wrote: > Hi all! > > As I'm using a dhcp served network now, with both, wired and wireless > LAN available, i thought i should give the current stable version > (0.6.4) of network manager a try. I'm on a pretty customized debian > unstable, with 2.

Re: Problem with NetworkManager, Ubuntu 6.10

2006-12-21 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 15:08 -0800, Ruland, Robert E. wrote: > I am a newbie to Linux and obviously need some basic advice. I just > installed Edgy Eft on an IBM T40p replacing XP. I can connect manually > to open wireless networks, i.e. I need to type in the SSID. Synaptic > tells me that Network M

Disconnect VPN (was: Finding existing PPP connection)

2006-12-14 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 16:06 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > Yeah, I know that's a problem. But I'd like to do this the "right" way, > even if it takes a few more weeks or such. I applaud that as it is generally quicker in the long run. On a related note (since the previous thread dealt with futur

Re: Proposal: remove support for non-scanning wireless drivers in 0.7?

2006-12-11 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 22:16 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > Hi, > > Would anyone be terribly offended if support for non-scanning drivers > got removed for the next major version of NetworkManager? I can't think > of any driver of consequence [1] right now that doesn't support > scanning, since Orin

Re: network-manager-openvpn remote port?

2006-12-11 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 22:08 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 18:15 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > I keep hearing that. I want to get involved in NM dev work, > > specifically to help add two-phase auth. I started to send you a > > Two phase auth for

Re: network-manager-openvpn remote port?

2006-12-11 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 17:48 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 18:22 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > Is there a way to specify a non-standard remote port to use with > > network-manager-openvpn? I don't see anything on the vpn config gui, > > nor could

network-manager-openvpn remote port?

2006-12-08 Thread Jim Popovitch
Is there a way to specify a non-standard remote port to use with network-manager-openvpn? I don't see anything on the vpn config gui, nor could I find anything conclusive via Google. Tia, -Jim P. ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-lis

Re: Problem with ubuntu 6.0 and networkmanager gnome

2006-12-07 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 01:57 +0100, Fernando wrote: > Till now it me was working without problems but today it does not > connect me to my wireless network, well, it is for wpa, detects the > network to me asks me for the key of access to the network and remains > " waiting for password of network f

T-Mobile (and other) support

2006-12-02 Thread Jim Popovitch
Hi, In order to connect to T-Mobile (and presumably some other) 802.1x networks (Not the current tmobile WEP), NM needs to use PAP for the secondary (Inner Auth). I'm presently using NM v0.6.3-2ubuntu6, which doesn't support this. Is there a newer alpha/beta version that does? If not is someone