Re: wifi/wpa gui for opie

The application is very good and useful (IMHO) for OPIE. I can't say
about me that I'll surely will have this work done, but I think it's
worth to put your code to public, so one of us will try to do something.
Regards,
Dmitriy

Nicolas FR wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First I am very glad to see that Opie project is going on. I have a C760
> that I don't use anymore because x11 is too slow for regular use and using
> outdated cacko or sharprom is not an option anymore.
>
> I a few months ago I made some work to backport wpa-gui to cacko and it
> worked fine. Would any of you be interested in using this work to add a
> gui
> to OPIE to manage wifi connections? Making a recipe with patches for
> wpa-gui does not seem to be the good option, as there are too many
> modifications. Maybe that would be a better idea to "fork" wpa-gui based on
> my work and incorporate it into OPIE base code? I really believe that a
> 2007
> distro should have as a base component a gui to manage wifi profiles with
> WPA support.
>
> I don't have time (nor the skills) to do this by myself, so I hope someone
> can do it. If so I'll search through my archives and send the files (they
> must be somewhere...).
>
> Btw, I have another question related to Opie which I believe is very
> important on a user point of view: is there any new decent browser that
> could be used under Opie (I am even talking about "hakish" ways like
> ripping
> Opera from the Nokia N800, ...)? Or are we doomed to use the old buggy
> konqueror ?
>
>
> Best regards and thank you for the work done with Opie.
> Nicolas.
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Received on Thu Jul 19 2007 - 07:51:59 EDT