[Nix-dev] optional packages for KDE

[Lluís Batlle]

2009/12/4 Wolfgang Jeltsch <g9ks157k at acme.softbase.org>:
>> Although it needs improvements because using /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
>> is not ideal and the expression only works if you have iwlan0. Any other
>> device name will fail.
>
> Isn’t wlan0 more common?
it works for wlan0 only. My card is in eth1 (ipw2200), and I was lazy
to update the wpa_supplicant expression in nixos, and I only have the
change in my copy.

> Do you think, a user should have to become root in order to connect to some
> wireless network when on the road? Consider a shared business laptop where
> only some member of the technical stuff has admin rights.
Maybe we did not have this use case until now... we could think of a
way of handling that. I have not found any working-by-default solution
and I end up writing my scripts runnable through sudo.

Regards,
Lluís.