will gtkwifi be in dapper?

[spoilerhead]

gtkwifi is simply great!

it has never been so easy to conenct to wlan.


so, will it be in dapper?


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[23meg]

See this thread (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=94536). If Network Manager is to be a default there will be no need for GTKWifi. I believe it should still be in the repositories as an option though, just not installed by default.

[spoilerhead]

hm, bad ;-(

gtkwifi is imho the best and easiest way to conenct to a wlan.

maybe i could be integreated int othe network manager or so

[angrylittleman]

I prefer gtkwifi to network-manager.....although if either supported WPA, I would use either. I hope that gtkwifi makes dapper, at least as an option.

[xhaker]

Hello all,
Gtkwifi is set to be available on dapper universe.
The package was already uploaded for review, but wasn't accepted due to security concerns:
In the current setup, gtkwifi adds a script to the sudoers file so that the users don't need to enter a password to use this applet to manage their wifi connections. I guess network-manager uses a startup daemon instead. So i need to find someway to fix this, someone suggested asking the user if the script could have the +s bit set.

I'm still slacking in concern to WPA support.. (i'm a student you know :P) Wireless Extensions should support wpa in the next version, (so iwconfig should be able to set wpa on the cards). I don't really understand how this will work, i'm thinking a supplicant app will still be required...

[DanceMan]

There is a small army of road crews out there and they mostly all have notebooks. Every day an open WLAN is set up backstage for them to use. If they can't find it as easily on Ubuntu as they can on Win and Mac, they won't be interested. I've just gone through a week of grief trying to get a notebook online on wireless on one of these networks with fresh installs of 2K and Breezy. Breezy won the opening round, because it could connect occasionally but not often, and the display, wireless, etc. all had drivers right off the install. But all the Win and Mac notebooks of the other crew were online all the time with no problems.

Once I got the Intel drivers and ProSet utility installed in Win, it won round two. I just found this thread, and I'm hoping that gtkwifi will find the networks as ProSet does.