Fedora Core 4 Test Update: NetworkManager-0.5.1-1.FC4.1

[Chris Chabot]

The reason you did not hear many people complain might be because for
one its not used by default so not everyone knows of its existence, or
alternatively like me are waiting for the point where they can use it
without to much fuss.

The 'ease' of 'it just works' isn't quite there yet, because it keeps
asking me for passwords to be able to bring the network up, instead of
already letting me get to work when i switch on the notebook.. i have to
wait for it to prompt for passwords and use them to get the wep key and
bring the network up, instead of being ready and connected to the
preferred & available network and letting me do whatever i switched my
notebook on

To be honest i only complain because i WANT to use NM badly and you said
not many people do :-). I love the visual feedback on network strength,
have the pretty clickable applet & would love to just be able to click
the network i want it to use ... without the disadvantages it brings
with it that it has now :-) 

Can't we just use (and store) the keys that
in /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/*/keys-* ? :-)

    -- Chris

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:04 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:


> NetworkManager was written to make wireless & laptop use easier
> _immediately_, and server & immobile workstation cases would be dealt
> with at a slightly later date.  The current operation of NM is entirely
> consistent with a laptop/mobile-user use-case, and I've not heard [m]any
> of these users complain.  Laptop & mobile users do not always have
> network.  So in the current system, cronjobs have no guarantee of being
> run either.  NM doesn't change that.


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