On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 07:59 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
How does it solve the problem if an employer doesn't want to give
employees root access, but expects them you be able to use WiFi? Hmm. I use WiFi in three offices, hotels, home, and wherever. On KDE I set it up via network manager. I am never root for that. Same with wired connections. I think the problem is that network manager seems to have gone through a bad stretch where it could, in some updates, stop working. That, for wifi on openSUSE, is the issue. I do not know if the gnome equivalent has had such a seemingly turbulent recent history.
In 12.1, you need root password to initially configure a WiFi connection. Once that's done, you can use it without root password. Earlier versions did not require root password to establish a connection.
Do you mean in YaST where you say you want it to be managed by ifup or by the user? Isn't that selectable when the OS in initially installed? If the installer person selects that it is to be controlled by the user, then that is that. We do our installs from OEM images we create with KIWI. There we have set the defaults so the installer person does not even have to get it right. But in the standard openSUSE installer, I really think this is available. I may be wrong. Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org