On Sat, 2005-26-02 at 13:15 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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 I agree the lack of good documentation is a bit of a problem. I wouldn't have had to ask the question if I could have read it myself :-) Hopefully your comments have been noted by the developers and will be addressed in the future. Regards, David Donnelly >
