On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, I listened to Linux Reality podcast and I heard there about wicd > [1]. They have mentioned it a few times and always in context that it > is a much better wireless network manager that gnome NetworkManager. I > can't test it because there is no wich in fedora repositories so I'm > interested if someone has already tested this app and what do you > think about it? looking @ the screenshot, it looks more like a wrapper GUI for wpa_supplicant , iwconfig, and ifconfig and require user-configuration - and focus more for ethernet and wlans. NetworkManager in the other hand, is more for JustWorks(tm) with broad range of supported connections and features. Static IP, Connection Sharing, and several other cool stuff are also on the way for NetworkManager 0.7 If you are interested in using wich, how about start contributing and package it into fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join > > Cheers, > Valent. > > [1] http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ > > -- > http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ > linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless > registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. > ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- Mohd Izhar Firdaus Bin Ismail Amano Hikaru 天野晃 「あまの ひかる」 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MohdIzharFirdaus http://blog.kagesenshi.org 92C2 B295 B40B B3DC 6866 5011 5BD2 584A 8A5D 7331
