Bug 119801

Summary:	Feature Request: KInternet support for WPA
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Dirk Gorissen <dgorissen>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Andreas Jaeger <aj>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SUSE Other
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Description Dirk Gorissen 2005-10-01 10:02:47 UTC

I love the KInternet tool since it makes handling WLANs a lot easier.  However 
it still lacks in usability compared to the WinXP way of handling Wireless 
connections (imho very userfriendly and easy to quickly switch between 
networks). 
 
My request is to add WPA support to KInternet, instead of WEP only.  So that 
when you double click on a WPA encrypted network it asks you for the WPA 
passphrase instead of for the WEP details.  Same goes for updating column 
names, etc.  I know not all hardware drivers support WPA but none the less it 
would be a nice feature to have so one doesnt have to go through the tedious 
"nexts" of YaST each time. 
 
In any case keep up the good work, I love suse! 
Cheers 
Dirk 
 
PS: using OpenSuse 10.0 RC1 with kinternet-0.72-3

Comment 1 Arvin Schnell 2005-10-10 10:08:52 UTC

To be decided by managment.

Comment 2 Timo Hoenig 2005-10-10 10:19:38 UTC

There is onging work to implement WPA support in NetworkManager (NM).  Thus, 
this work is not included in SL10.0.

Dirk, if you're keen on giving NetworkManager (NM) a try, have a look on the 
mailing list [1].  So far, NM only provides a GNOME applet.  However, this 
applet _does_ work with KDE, too.  We're working on a native KDE integration for 
SL10.1.

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/

Comment 3 Andreas Jaeger 2005-11-14 15:11:42 UTC

We're not going to add this to kinternet but NetworkManager should have it,
therefore resolving as WONTFIX.