4 Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
7 Functionality and features
8 ==========================
10 The following features are built-in into Connection Manager:
11 - Generic plugin infrastructure
12 - Device and network abstraction (with basic storage support)
13 - IPv4, routing and DNS configuration
16 Various plugins can be enabled for networking support:
18 - WiFi plugin with WEP40/WEP128 and WPA/WPA2 (personal only) support
21 Also plugins with additional features are available:
26 Compilation and installation
27 ============================
29 In order to compile Connection Manager you need following software packages:
33 - PolicyKit (optional)
36 ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
38 Configure automatically searches for all required components and packages.
40 To compile and install run:
47 In order to compile pptp and l2tp VPN plugins, you need ppp development
50 To run l2tp you will need
51 - xl2tpd, http://www.xelerance.com/services/software/xl2tpd
53 To run pptp you will need
54 - pptp client, http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net
56 Both l2tp and pptp also need pppd.
59 Configuration and options
60 =========================
62 For a working system, certain configuration options need to be enabled:
66 Enable support for Ethernet network cards
70 Enable support for WiFi devices (requires wpa_supplicant)
75 Enable support for Bluetooth devices (requires BlueZ)
79 Enable setup of loopback device
81 For distributions with a really minimal init system and no
82 networking scripts this can take care of setting up the
83 loopback device and enabling it.
85 It is safe to select this option even if networking scripts
86 are in place. It detects an already configured loopback
87 device and leaves it as it is.
91 Enable support for PolicyKit authorization
93 This allows to check every D-Bus access against a security
94 policy and so restrict access to certain functionality.