Re: f8: NetworkManager + runlevel 3 problem

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 09:23 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> Chris Jones wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 00:52 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> John Summerfield wrote:
> >>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >>>> Ya. I meant tied to a any particular desktop environment.
> >>> Until that's undone, it's not going to be very useful to me. I have two 
> >>> desktop computers with PCI wireless cards, one's acting as a relay. I 
> >>> have three Linux laptops with wireless, one's acting as a  relay. Any of 
> >>> the others might have both interfaces active at any time, and there's no 
> >>> guessing which (if either) should be the gateway to the Internet.
> >>>
> >>> None of my Linux laptops and only one of the wireless desktops boots to 
> >>> runlevel 5.
> >> Then just use iwconfig and forget about NM?
> > 
> > Maybe he wants the additional functionality or flexibility presented by
> > NM (not saying this is the case, just postulating) - What I don't
> > understand is why it is so hard for you to acknowledge that someone
> > might what to try benefit from NM in a non-graphical environment.
> > 
> > Just telling users to suck it up and use something else instead is very
> > dismissive.
> 
> Thanks Chris.
> 
> Wireless on Fedora sucks, and it seems it will suck for time to come.
> 
First wireless works flawlessly for me on my laptop with f7. Not working
is more a function of the wireless hardware not fedora.

Second, on what version of Linux are you satisfied with the wireless
behavior?
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