The case against NetworkManager

[Rahul Sundaram]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>>> NM does not work with my Orinoco PCMCIA classic gold card.
>>> It sends out a message saying something like "Get a better card".
>>> Basically, I believe the Orinoco card does not support
>>> the kind of scanning that NM uses.
>> That is a fault in the driver that needs to be fixed. Make sure you have
>> a bug report filed.
> 
> I've had long correspondence with the NM team,
> who agreed in the end that NM did not work with this device.
> 
> The driver is a standard part of the kernel distribution (orinoco_cs).
> If NM doesn't work with this the fault lies with NM, in my opinion.

There are a number of drivers upstream which needs fixes. Just because 
it is upstream does not indicate that everything is right with it. 
Scanning should be a standard feature in all wireless drivers and this 
is getting fixed over time. Go talk to wireless driver maintainers and 
see if they agree with you.

> Incidentally, "iwlist eth0 scan" works perfectly with this card:

Scanning in NetworkManager and this are two different things.

Rahul