David Donnelly wrote: > I am very impressed with this program. Good work to the creator(s). > http://fedoranews.org/contributors/jim_lawrence/network_manager/ Sadly, I cannot concur. In the first place, this program appears to be completely lacking in any documentation, apart from the fairly useless README in /usr/share/doc/NetworkManager* . Secondly, NetworkManager makes unspecified changes in config files which are not restored when the program is stopped. Thirdly, as far as I can see NetworkManager tries to make my WiFi card (a bog-standard Orinico Gold PCMCIA card) perform operations that it is not capable of, causing my laptop to hang. Fourthly, as you mention it is not clear what relation NetworkManager has to NetworkManagerInfo. On my laptop the latter program sometimes starts the little windmill icon, and sometimes does not, in which case the only way I know the program is running is with "ps". Fifthly, when the program is running, I do not understand the option I am offered between "Add new connection" and "Other connection". (I should say that I am running Fedora-3 with linux-2.6.10.) A working network wizard would be a great addition to Linux. Sadly NetworkManager does not currently fulfil that role. The best one can say is that it is no worse than system-config-network* and the other wizards based on this. I would suggest that before "improving" NetworkManager some intelligible documentation should be provided, preferably in the form of a man page or an info file. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
