Am Montag, den 09.04.2007, 16:40 +0100 schrieb Timothy Murphy: > I have 5 WiFi devices, and NM works on just 2 of them. Thats not true. If your driver for the card is supported through iwconfig it should work. If not, you may should ask the Vendor of the Card to help _YOU_ (which means, provide the community with firmware and documentation that is redistributable). _YOU_ are his customer. > It is simply not up to the task, in my view, You mean cause you use buggy drivers the fault lies within NetworkManager? I don't think so. > and should definitely NOT be made a basic part of Fedora. > So it works for you, great - that doesn't mean it works for everyone. For me and many others is NetworkManager the invention of the Year. I can 'now' easily manage my wireless, dialup, vpn connections within one simple Tools. > In my view, NM tries to be far too clever, attempting to deal with Ethernet > and Bluetooth as well as WiFi. What is needed is a simple program like wifi-radar > that just has one aim in view, and that is to list all WiFi sources in range, > and go through the necessary steps (WEP, or whatever) to establish connection with one of them. Your Wishlist is exactly what NetworkManager provides you with. > Like Windows, in fact. No, it is better like in Windows. > Sigh. Double Sigh. And Greetings, long time no see on this list :) -- Stefan Held VI has only 2 Modes: obi unixkiste org The first one is for beeping all the time, FreeNode: foo_bar the second destroys the text. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Ambassador: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StefanHeld --------------------------------------------------------------------------- perl -e'map{print pack c,($|++?1:13)+ord,select$,,$,,$,,$|}split//,ESEL.$/' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG-Keyprint = 75C0 F029 CA71 F061 6C07 0640 38F7 E5F9 4EA5 A385
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