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Friday, September 08, 2006
NetWizard progress...
Netwizard
The First Release Candidate came out a few weeks ago and I am ready to release a Second Candidate.
NetWizard and QuickNetWizard can do the following:
1) Two, easy to use, Wizards (NetWizard and QuickNetWizard) for configuring network interfaces.
2) Fully supports NDISWrapper and NDIS Driver usage with both DHCP and Static IP Configurations.
3) Probes and Activates network adapter.
4) Creates SLAX module containing ndiswrapper-framework. I am considering changing the name of ndiswrapper-framework to NetWizard-Framework since it is close to supporting Kernel Drivers as well.
5) Supports WEP (I dont have a WPA Access Point/Router... when I get one, I will start on integrating that into the Wizards)
Tested with 4 Network Adapters: USB, PCM/CIA, Built-in.
Soon to be released features:
1) Database of known working configurations to allow "auto" config. This location of known drivers will be in the DB.
2) Auto driver download from known sites hosting drives. This is just an automated extension of #1's location information.
Future Features:
1) "Database" tool to allow adding to the configuration knowledgebase. Many contributors makes for rapid grown and for easier auto config for the populace at large.
2) Kernel driver configuration for: DHCP and Static configurations. Both existing supported drivers and newly compiled drivers will be supported.
Relook at the Project Benefits
A few good things should come from this project:
1) a good parameter based network configuration program is always a nice thing.
This is still a goal. Current implementation outputs a file usable for parsing. No configuration program created yet. All functionality is currently within the Wizard itself. Later, or other, incarnations will use a Generic Front-end and choosable backend.
2) The back-end parameter based network configuration program can be used with any front-end. See #1
3) The front-end Kommander project can be used with any backend program. See #1. Use of the current NetWizard is possible since it does create an output file.
4) The front-end Kommander project can be used as a template for others to learn from, hopefully helping people to make their own Wizards for SLAX. This is very possible. Other Kommander projects mentioned here will be also available and chock full of Widget goodness.
5) Features that I am not supporting (e.g. WPA encryption), can be added by someone with the need to add those particular features.
6) The parameter parsing code can be helpful for other scripts. Still planned.
The First Release Candidate came out a few weeks ago and I am ready to release a Second Candidate.
NetWizard and QuickNetWizard can do the following:
1) Two, easy to use, Wizards (NetWizard and QuickNetWizard) for configuring network interfaces.
2) Fully supports NDISWrapper and NDIS Driver usage with both DHCP and Static IP Configurations.
3) Probes and Activates network adapter.
4) Creates SLAX module containing ndiswrapper-framework. I am considering changing the name of ndiswrapper-framework to NetWizard-Framework since it is close to supporting Kernel Drivers as well.
5) Supports WEP (I dont have a WPA Access Point/Router... when I get one, I will start on integrating that into the Wizards)
Tested with 4 Network Adapters: USB, PCM/CIA, Built-in.
Soon to be released features:
1) Database of known working configurations to allow "auto" config. This location of known drivers will be in the DB.
2) Auto driver download from known sites hosting drives. This is just an automated extension of #1's location information.
Future Features:
1) "Database" tool to allow adding to the configuration knowledgebase. Many contributors makes for rapid grown and for easier auto config for the populace at large.
2) Kernel driver configuration for: DHCP and Static configurations. Both existing supported drivers and newly compiled drivers will be supported.
Relook at the Project Benefits
A few good things should come from this project:
1) a good parameter based network configuration program is always a nice thing.
This is still a goal. Current implementation outputs a file usable for parsing. No configuration program created yet. All functionality is currently within the Wizard itself. Later, or other, incarnations will use a Generic Front-end and choosable backend.
2) The back-end parameter based network configuration program can be used with any front-end. See #1
3) The front-end Kommander project can be used with any backend program. See #1. Use of the current NetWizard is possible since it does create an output file.
4) The front-end Kommander project can be used as a template for others to learn from, hopefully helping people to make their own Wizards for SLAX. This is very possible. Other Kommander projects mentioned here will be also available and chock full of Widget goodness.
5) Features that I am not supporting (e.g. WPA encryption), can be added by someone with the need to add those particular features.
6) The parameter parsing code can be helpful for other scripts. Still planned.
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