Re: A comment on NetworkManager

[Gene Heskett <gene heskett verizon net>]

Darren Albers wrote:
> > It appears to me that there might be a small snowballs chance in hell of
> > its working if two conditions are met:
> >
> > 1. Must be running gnome or it appears all the tools aren't available
> > 2. Must NOT be using ndiswrapper.
> >
> > This assumes that the now 4 month old tome from redhat, written by
> > Rosanna Yuen has been printed, salted & peppered and comsumed in hopes
> > it might enlighten the potential user.  For this user, it does not.  And
> > its all gnome-centric, totally ignoreing kde users.  Does this mean that
> > kde users will be forever locked out of using this tool?
>
>
> Ubuntu and SUSE are both shipping with KNetworkManager so NM for KDE is
> available now.  I think it is hosted in the KDE.org SVN.
>
>
> So when is it going to be made compatible with kde, AND ndiswrapper so
> > all of us using broadcom radios can share in the apparent glee here.  My
> > experience with NM has been uniformly negative, with every attempt to
> > run it destroying all networking and requireing a full powerdown reset
> > to restore it.
>
>
> The problem is not N-M it is NDISWrapper supporting a full set of 
> Wireless
> Extensions, I think that the latest (Or maybe it is the version in CVS)
> fully support the latest version of WEXT and work with N-M.
>
> So if you have a new version of NDISWrapper and run KNetworkManager you
> should be good to go.
Currently running: ndiswrapper-1.13-1.lvn5

But I've not seen a KNetworkManager yet.  I do have kwiwfimanager, but 
it seems to be only a guified version of iwlist /device/ scan.  It use 
to unghost the switch network button, but has never done that here in 
the motel.  And, where iwlist wlan0 scan shows both AP nodes here, 
Kwifimanager only sees one.  Both carry the same ESSID of course, but 
different MAC addresses.  so its basicly a snooper program as yet.

If, as everyone seems to be claiming, its been working since FC3, then 
it seems to me it should be nigh onto bulletproof by FC5.  Instead, its 
the bullet that kills everything it touches here.

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Cheers, Gene