Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams [LWN.net]

Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

Posted Feb 26, 2008 18:32 UTC (Tue) by jwb (subscriber, #15467)
Parent article: Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

I too have found Network Manager to be deeply flawed.  I have excised it from my Ubuntu
laptop.  It can prevent the machine from shutting down or sleeping, which is quite annoying,
and it drains battery power.  With my Atheros hardware Network Manager is incapable of joining
or forming an Ad-Hoc network, although it claims success when instructed to do so.  And it's
tendency to join a network with the same name but different BSSID is annoying and possibly
insecure.

Good idea, bad implementation.

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Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

Posted Feb 26, 2008 18:54 UTC (Tue) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

Funny, on OS X the problem is in the other direction: it keeps asking whether it should join a
network I have joined before (my wireless router)

Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

Posted Feb 26, 2008 18:55 UTC (Tue) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

Clarification: I meant OS X's wireless subsystem, not NM. NetworkManager (as is currently in
Rawhide) feels much more polished than the version in F-8, which was already quite good