Re: Slight flame at NM

[Robert Paskowitz <rpaskowitz confucius ca>]

NM does not really care what drivers you use, whether they are in the 
kernel proper or not, especially since most wireless drivers are not in 
the kernel.

Also, the orinoco drivers to which you were linked are from the same 
branch as those in the kernel tree, but are more recent, since gettign 
stuff into the tree takes time.

Furthermore, NM should not gracefully exit when no card is found, since 
it's job is to sit around and be ready to grab you a connection with any 
network card, present or future. Perhaps you have a wired card in your 
machine, or perhaps in an hour you will pop in another pcmcia card which 
does work.

Timothy Murphy wrote:

> On Sat 26 Mar 2005 16:54, you wrote:
>
>  
>
> > using orinoco-cvs (http://www.nongnu.org/orinoco/)
> > you can happily use your orinoco card with NetworkManager.
> >    
>
> I should confess that my interest in NM does not extend
> to compiling non-kernel sources.
> (I would happily apply any patches appearing at www.kernel.org .)
>
> Basically, I would like to use NM if it worked without problem;
> but I already have a WiFi connection working perfectly
> (with the kernel orinoco_cs module)
> and I wouldn't like to endanger that.
>
> What you are saying in effect is that there are drivers
> which work with the Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card,
> and which support scanning.
>
> That doesn't really answer my complaint,
> which was that one should be told
> that there is a simple test to tell if card + driver
> is likely to work with NM (namely "iwlist <interface> scanning").
>
> And the NM program must know that the card cannot scan,
> so why does it not just exit gracefully with an appropriate message?
>
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