Re: netmanager problems with ubuntu 8.04

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Eric S. Johansson <esj harvee org> wrote:
>> Kenneth Crudup wrote:
>>> On Sun, 18 May 2008, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
>>>
>>>> ... but ends up with me trying networkmanager 0.7.  must say that with
>>>> backported modules, wifi works great again.  I am most grateful.
>>>
>>> What did you do?! I've been unable to get it to work from the SVN.
>>>
>>
>> didn't use svn.  not that much of a masochist.
>>
>> back port modules info here
>> http://linuxtechie.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/making-intel-wireless-3945abg-work-better-on-ubuntu-hardy/
>>
>> network manager 0.7 info from here  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=676992
>>
>
> I think those packages are somewhat old, Alexander is the Ubuntu
> Maintainer so they are certainly trustworthy but the feature set in
> those packages is significantly less than recent snapshots.   I know
> that Alexander is busy and in the past he has stated that it is his
> intent is to provide packages when NM 0.7 goes final so in the
> meantime I rebuilt the packages Michael Biebl is building for Debian
> SID and so far they seem to work well.   I posted the packages and a
> howto here:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=797059
>
> Please do not post any bugs to Launchpad for these packages, they are
> not in any way shape or form support by Canonical.
>
> These packages were rebuilt from Michael's repo as of May 9th.
>

Also, all the credit for this and /none/ of the blame goes to Michael
for these packages.   I simply rebuilt them for Ubuntu, which may be
different enough from Sid to cause issues.  In my testing I haven't
found any but it is possible so don't blame him (or me!) if your
wireless card eats your cat.