Chris Jones wrote: >> I actually think NM tries to do far too much. >> I don't seen any advantage in software that deals with WiFi >> and ethernet together. > > I do. > > It is very useful to have something that automatically switches between > ethernet and wireless networks transparently depending on what is > available and what isn't. NM does this for you and presumably it can > only do this by knowing about ethernet and wireless at the same time. I have no problem at all with this. I have WiFi on eth0 and ethernet on eth1. If WiFi is available it uses that; if not, eth0 does not come up, and eth1 is used. Incidentally, I have never ever had any problem with ethernet; the cheapest and scruffiest devices seem to work perfectly. Sadly, WiFi under all Linux distributions I have tried is not good - as far as I can see, all the distributions try to be too clever; so if WiFi is not working it is difficult to work out why. All WiFi error messages seem to be written by aliens. WiFi under Windows is not perfect, by any means - but at least it is fairly easy to see what is wrong if it is not working.
