Re: Poisontap security issue of NetworkManager?

2016-11-21 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
g done to lock more than the screen and keyboard, I think it should be at the udev level - not in NetworkManager. The lockscreen/screensaver app needs to tell udev to stop activating things until unlocked. Meanwhile, I have to keep taking my laptop into the restroom... -- Stuart D. G

Re: Best practice for managing default routes over only VPN connections?

2016-11-07 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
7;d have to carry that around (and router devices get exploited a lot these days). -- Stuart D. Gathman "Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.

Re: Homenet

2016-03-22 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw that on Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Xen would write: This is the flawed method of addressing I was discussing: - the external address of your network, and - the internal address of your sub-network should be different and independent numbers. But both are expected to

Re: Homenet

2016-03-21 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
n is a valuable and essential tool - but you don't give it to a four year old to play with unsupervised. Except everything has become a 1000 times more complex, apparently. 1000 times more simple. Hence, why I don't even bother with IP4 anymore except to configure a 6

Re: Maintaining connection

2015-03-11 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Dan Williams wrote: On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 15:57 -0500, Alex Ferm wrote: Hello, I'm trying to write a python script that resets NetworkManager when the state is not "NM_STATE_CONNECTED_GLOBAL". Does NetworkManager time out and retry automatically during the "NM_STATE_CONNECT

Multiple IPv6 RAs and specific routes broken?

2013-01-31 Thread Stuart D Gathman
I have a single default router sending RAs, and another router which does *not* advertise a default route, but instead advertises two specific routes. I'm not sure whether NM or the kernel is to blame, but while radvdump shows both RAs arriving, the only route installed is the default route.

Re: IPv6 default routes / NM vs. kernel autoconfig vs DHCP6

2012-08-08 Thread Stuart D Gathman
On 08/08/2012 03:00 AM, Tore Anderson expounded in part: This could get non-trivial when there are multiple routes provided by RA. NM must then find the route that matches the DHCP6 address to determine the correct prefix. An address assigned by DHCPv6 IA_NA is just that, a single address. DH

Re: IPv6 default routes / NM vs. kernel autoconfig vs DHCP6

2012-08-07 Thread Stuart D Gathman
On 08/03/2012 05:33 PM, Dan Williams expounded in part: That's correct, but at the time that bug was filed I did not know enough about IPv6 configuration to suggest the correct course of action. I now know much more and realize that adding it back was a mistake. We should really deprecate that

Re: IPv6 default routes / NM vs. kernel autoconfig vs DHCP6

2012-08-07 Thread Stuart D Gathman
On 08/03/2012 05:33 PM, Dan Williams expounded in part: That's correct, but at the time that bug was filed I did not know enough about IPv6 configuration to suggest the correct course of action. I now know much more and realize that adding it back was a mistake. We should really deprecate that

Re: IPv6 default routes / NM vs. kernel autoconfig

2012-07-30 Thread Stuart D Gathman
On 07/23/2012 08:12 PM, Pavel Simerda expounded in part: NM is working around lack of information from kernel and it works only in basic situations. There are solutions to this. While it doesn't actually break, I have a related issue with DHCP6. When RA enables DHCP6 (and NM set to "Automatic"),

Re: Gobi firmware (was: Not detecting broadband card)

2011-09-13 Thread Stuart D Gathman
On 09/13/2011 11:57 AM, rich...@ecos.de wrote: is there a place to get the all gobi firmware "for linux". Until now we extracted it from the windows drivers and I am not sure if we have pick up the right one. Would be cool if there is some download possibility. There cannot be any *official* do

Re: Connecting to weak signal wifi, wireless network authentication required message

2011-03-28 Thread Stuart D Gathman
On 03/27/2011 03:02 AM, Julian H wrote: Hi Mathieu, > This feature causes my wifi network connection to hold its operation > indefinitely until human intervention is reoccurs, network access is halted > until the user clicks connect. This problem is not unique, there are many around the world

Re: Network Monitor

2011-02-17 Thread Stuart D Gathman
Le 15/02/2011 18:53, Matej Kovacic a écrit : I am using 3G mobile connection, and have limited traffic. Traffic over some treshold (for instance 1 Gb a month) is very very expensive. That 3G provider is missing the boat, business wise. Good ISPs monitor your limit for you, and when you reach it

Re: WPA2 password problem

2010-09-28 Thread Stuart D Gathman
On 09/17/2010 04:27 AM, Marc Herbert wrote: My current paranoid theory is that the M$ setup CD configures the WPA2 with a binary key, derived from the passphrase by a proprietary password hash that only Windows uses. Interesting... It should be possible to prove this "two hash functions" t

Re: how to let http brings up networkmanager modem connectivity?

2010-09-16 Thread Stuart D Gathman
On 09/16/2010 01:39 PM, hong sheng wrote: I mean "bring up the 3G connectivity automatically when we start web brower application", not just http. sounds pretty shortsighted, considering that the internet contains many more things than http... This is common for dialup. Routers that

Re: WPA2 password problem

2010-09-16 Thread Stuart D Gathman
On 09/16/2010 11:08 AM, José Queiroz wrote: Sometimes, a problem with the wireless adapter may cause NM to fail connection. When the connection fails repeatedly, NM opens a window asking you to retype the password, even though it is correct. Confirm that you are using the best driver for your

Re: Removing Cell Modem

2010-06-24 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
e the OEM that makes the device is an idiot. In my experience, "OEM is an idiot" is a hypothesis with a low but significant probability. -- Stuart D. Gathman Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, fla

Removing Cell Modem

2010-06-23 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
Manager need a "safely remove" option like USB storage drives have? -- Stuart D. Gathman Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsor

Re: Connect Button

2008-07-08 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
Dan Williams wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 19:03 -0400, Stuart D. Gathman wrote: Dan Williams wrote: 0.7 needs both the SSID and a scanned BSSID to complete a connection, so just trying to connect with the SSID will fail. Hopefully, I'm missing some context on this.

Re: Connect Button

2008-07-07 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
Dan Williams wrote: In the ideal case, the admin would have pre-loaded the list of BSSIDs of the hidden network into GConf and the user wouldn't have to manually connect via a button, because NM would be able to match up the scanned BSSIDs with known SSIDs, and thus would auto-connect. 0.7 needs

Re: Network Manager Wifi thoughts

2008-04-03 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Stuart D. Gathman wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Fanen A. wrote: > >>> If we're talking methods then it could check that the dns ip addresses >>> it's been given are valid, or it could check a number of things. http >>> site availa

Re: Network Manager Wifi thoughts

2008-04-03 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
f you can reach DNS, you are "on the internet" (even if port 80 is blocked). -- Stuart D. Gathman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - background song f

Re: Update to 0.7.0 problems.

2008-01-26 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
device. Ndiswrapper has not been updated on livna.org for the new kernel yet. You can reboot and select your previous kernel to see if that fixes your problem. To make the previous kernel permanent (until livna is updated), edit /etc/grub.conf as root and change the default. -- S

NetworkManager and SwitchUser

2008-01-03 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
you have the same as Wicd now. If you provide both, you can have all users auto-connect to the public and home WAPs, but the uber-secret company access key can remain private. -- Stuart D. Gathman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax:

Re: My Laptop

2007-12-12 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Larry Finger wrote: > Stuart D. Gathman wrote: >> , but I got kernel exceptions, DMA exception, and eventually the >> system froze. I would say it is not ready for prime time. (I will be >> looking for where to helpfully report the exception

Re: 0.7 this year?

2007-12-12 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
0.6 on EL5). So download the werewolf and enjoy. -- Stuart D. Gathman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "W

Re: My Laptop

2007-12-12 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
bug the thing. I suspect donations of relevant hardware are most useful.) No problems with the zd1211 driver and USB key. -- Stuart D. Gathman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus

Re: Incessant connection/deconnection

2007-10-22 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
utes. You can see the lights do the power-on self test thing. YMMV (When it gets annoying enough, I'll buy a Linksys WRT54L.) -- Stuart D. Gathman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, fla

Re: Works with wpa_supplicant -D wext, but not with NM

2007-09-21 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
Stuart Gathman wrote: > wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.1.fc6 > NetworkManager-0.6.4-6.el5 > > The error message from NM is: > The requested wireless network requires security capabilities > unsupported by your hardware. > (gnome/applet/passphrase-dialog.c) > > wpa_applicant works fine. wifi-radar works