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Well, it looks like start of Network Manager reimplementation...Well, it looks like start of Network Manager reimplementation...Posted Nov 11, 2011 0:18 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)In reply to: Well, it looks like start of Network Manager reimplementation... by khim Parent article: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)
> You can drive it from command line using cnetworkmanager...
You can't manage wireless connections through it (adding, removing, etc.). Only nm-applet supports it. You could hack the XML config files I suppose, but wpa_supplicant.conf is easier in that case (except the root requirement, but to avoid XML and a session dbus for just one app, I'll take it).
> I'm not sure I remember the time when I was last forced to think about the fact that I have different SSIDs at home and at work, etc.
wpa_supplicant.conf allows you to do the same. The priority= setting allows it to choose in the face of choice as well. I don't recall NM having that last I used it.
The only practical difference between NM and wpa_supplicant in my experience is that NM will connect and drop automatically where I need to do "ifup" manually. However, where NM will drop at a network disruption, ifup will stay up until I take it down. That, IMO, is well worth the slight inconvenience of an ifup at boot (which is in the history right alongside exec startx).
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Well, it looks like start of Network Manager reimplementation... Posted Nov 12, 2011 7:34 UTC (Sat) by tom.prince (subscriber, #70680) [Link]
In fact, the network-manager configuration files are simple ini style config files.
Well, it looks like start of Network Manager reimplementation... Posted Nov 13, 2011 14:18 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
That's certainly an improvement.
Well, it looks like start of Network Manager reimplementation... Posted Nov 17, 2011 12:51 UTC (Thu) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link] I find that with wpa_supplicant I can ifup wlan0 on boot and then walk between networks without manual ifdown or ifup and stay connected, so long as some kind of configuration for the network exists. Having a generic fallback for open networks is really all you need; I'm surprised that such a fallback isn't supplied by default by wpa_supplicant.
Well, it looks like start of Network Manager reimplementation... Posted Nov 17, 2011 23:21 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
True, but I don't add a catch-all open network section simply because I'd like some notification when that happens.
Now if wpa_supplicant could automatically do RADIUS web logins instead of forcing me to realize that things aren't going through and then opening uzbl before firing offlineimap off, that'd be awesome.
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