On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 15:21 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > <snip> > >> Documentation? NM has been around since FC6, and people seem to keep > >> saying that the documentation is being worked on. At least on FC9beta it > >> really didn't work, ignored the hardwire, and brought the WiFi up on a > >> random open AP. I live between an apartment building and a college, > >> there are enough open APs available to choose. > >> nations of the wicked." - from Slashdot > >> > > http://live.gnome.org/DarrenAlbers/NetworkManagerFAQ > > > > > > http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager > > > I appreciate that you're trying to be helpful, but the FAQ does > hand-waving instead of giving useful answers. > > Example > > Q: "How does NetworkManager select which wireless network to connect to?" > > A: (part1) NM only attempts to automatically connect to networks you > have previously told it to connect to. [not the case, it picked one] The one it picks is generally the one you connected to last. I know you are going to say you never connected before. No matter look at comment under A. part2. > > (part2) If NM isn't connecting to the network you want, try to force it > to connect to the network you wish to be connected,... [If I knew how to > force it I wouldn't be reading the FAQ, now, would I?] You left click on nm-applet icon and choose the AP ypu wnat to connect to. > > (part3) In version 0.6.6 and later there is a profile editor that can be > used to add/remove networks. [Again, effort saved by not bothering to > tell the user HOW to get that tool running] > > > All it would take is a hyperlink at each point where the reader is told > to do something unfamiliar. However, not only is there no hyperlink, the > index points to a single sentence on doing this, "For version 0.6.6 or > later Use the Network Profile editor to remove unwanted networks." Do I > have to tell you that there doesn't appear to be a link in the table of > contents which describes the Network Profile Editor and how one accesses it? > > > I have written documentation for GE, IBM, SBC and technical articles for > national magazines, I've dealt with enough editors to know that this FAQ > is simply not well written for the target audience. And if I knew the > topic I would offer to make changes, but I don't. But as people are > forced to switch from known easy to use tools like > system-config-network, a lot of people are going to be unhappy trying to > learn a complex tool of limited capabilities. > > I would have hoped that there would be a simple way to enter a list of > APs, and an option to use any of them if only one were available, if > more than one were available ASK, if none of the preferred list are > available ASK. That suggestion came from someone about FC6... > > -- > > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from > the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot > -- ======================================================================= Bride, n.: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
