Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

Posted Feb 26, 2008 9:01 UTC (Tue) by mbottrell (guest, #43008)
In reply to: Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams by crackmonkey
Parent article: Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

I've personally dropped NetWork Manager where I need Wireless/WPA2.
I found it very unstable, to the point I had to restart networking every 10 minutes.

Gone back to traditional configs in flat files.. and bring up the wireless via an init script.
It's been flawless since.

I would prefer NW used flatfiles that are easily editable via a CLI.

Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

Posted Feb 26, 2008 12:43 UTC (Tue) by richo123 (guest, #24309) [Link]

Try wicd instead then.

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

The beauty of open source is choice ;-)

Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

Posted Feb 26, 2008 14:31 UTC (Tue) by dcbw (guest, #50562) [Link]

0.7 has the ability (turned on in Fedora) to read configuration from
/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/<name>/ifcfg-* and use those as "system" connections that
override the ones in GConf.  They look and work just like normal connections, but may be used
to lock down network config of the machine as well.  They also provide the ability to bring up
the network before login.

Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

Posted Feb 26, 2008 15:26 UTC (Tue) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

> I've personally dropped NetWork Manager where I need Wireless/WPA2.
I found it very unstable, to the point I had to restart networking every 10 minutes.

Newer versions are much better then older versions. I don't know were the cut-off point was.
With the old stuff I totally abandoned it and went with the Debian-style configuration and
wpasupplicant, which was very good. But there was a big version change that pretty much solved
every issue I had with it, mostly except...



> I would prefer NW used flatfiles that are easily editable via a CLI.


OH YES FFS!

Configuration files are a godsend. Nobody has any business making any sort of serious utility
or tool that can not be configured by a text editor. It's just criminal to do anything else.  

:)