On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 09:27 -0400, lanas wrote: > > 2. Aaron is giving you nothing of usefulness. A laptop should use > > NetworkManager for connecting to wireless networks...that's one of > the > > things that it is designed to do. > > I'd agree with this in the general sense. Although in this context it > could have been done with iwconfig et al. since the laptop uses always > the same AP. For 5 years I built and used my own Linux OS both at > home > and work, and started Wifi the home-built way. The I veered off > ready-made distros but still have notes about how to set this up. > > Makes me think, since I'm still keeping an eye on scaled-down, to the > point apps, what about wicd as an alternative to NM ? I'm tempted to > try it eventually. No gnome dependencies. Has a ncurses-based > interface for console modes and some other nifty features. A nicer > GTK > UI. > > http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ ---- I honestly don't know anything about wicd and a yum search turns up nothing so I would think that Fedora has had little interest in packaging it. I think Fedora is generally invested in the heavier footprints of Gnome and KDE desktop managers and so a toolkit that relies upon GTK doesn't seem to bother anyone. What I can tell you is that with each successive release NM gets better and better as tool for managing the needs of the user. Not only does it remember the WPA/WPA2 passwords for the various networks that I may be at from time to time, it also seems to link up automatically after hibernation...long a very difficult task. So in the sense that if you or someone asks about using wireless on current Fedora and not using NM, I would not recommend that for most people but I do recognize that this is Linux, there are many ways to accomplish various tasks and many people have different objectives and are sometimes willing to go to great lengths to see if they can do something to their liking and I say go for it. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
