John Summerfield wrote: > David Boles wrote: >> Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> David Boles wrote: > > >> Ah. So you think that Network Manager is the problem? If I understand it >> correctly they, Fedora developers, are working on a replacement for >> Network Manager. > > Network manager is the _new_ way. As Timothy says, its implementation > seems sadly awry. > > It should be good, if done properly, for laptop users in particular. > People with their computers tied to their desk don't need to change > their network settings very often, but people with laptops may need to > connect to several different networks (or access points) in a day. > > Futzing around with the old network configuration tools isn't an option, > particularly (unless I misremember) the text-mode one doesn't do > wireless at all > > For people who only ever use a gui, who only want wireless when they're > logged in, and who only want wireless or wire working at any moment, nm > is close to doing a good job. > > Outside that set of people, it seems pretty hopeless. > > Since I'm outside that set of people, I'm concerned for me personally. You would/should know more about this than I would but I am reasonably sure that NW has been discussed and that they are working on it or a replacement for it. I could be wrong. Probably am. I do recall reading that whatever KDE tries to do is supposed to be really poor. Or was. As I said before now. This is something that did not affect me so I read it but it did not make a lot of sense. -- David
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