Connection Manager ****************** Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Functionality and features ========================== The following features are built-in into Connection Manager: - Generic plugin infrastructure - Device and network abstraction (with basic storage support) - IPv4, routing and DNS configuration - DNS Proxy Various plugins can be enabled for networking support: - Ethernet plugin - WiFi plugin with WEP40/WEP128 and WPA/WPA2 (personal only) support - Bluetooth plugin Also plugins with additional features are available: - Loopback setup - PolicyKit support Compilation and installation ============================ In order to compile Connection Manager you need following software packages: - GCC compiler - GLib library - D-Bus library - PolicyKit (optional) To configure run: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var Configure automatically searches for all required components and packages. To compile and install run: make && make install Configuration and options ========================= For a working system, certain configuration options need to be enabled: --enable-ethernet Enable support for Ethernet network cards --enable-wifi Enable support for WiFi devices (requires wpa_supplicant) --enable-bluetooth Enable support for Bluetooth devices (requires BlueZ) --enable-loopback Enable setup of loopback device For distributions with a really minimal init system and no networking scripts this can take care of setting up the loopback device and enabling it. It is safe to select this option even if networking scripts are in place. It detects an already configured loopback device and leaves it as it is. --enable-polkit Enable support for PolicyKit authorization This allows to check every D-Bus access against a security policy and so restrict access to certain functionality.