Network Manager a positive?

[Scott Ledyard]

This resurrects a post that was almost a month old, but I wanted to say that
my skepticism about Network Manager was unwarranted. Between the beta
versions of Ubuntu Feisty and the final release, it made amazing strides. It
works reliably and makes browsing available wireless networks a breeze. A
nice touch is that if you establish a temporary wired connection with a
gateway, it disables the wireless connection so there is no confusion
regarding the default route.

Also, I re-installed the server version of Edubuntu, replacing 6.10 with
7.04 (Feisty) for my thin-client network at school. It was even easier than
before. I believe the whole process took less than a couple of hours, much
of that due to re-configuring Firefox, NoScript, etc. not having bothered to
save user settings.

Scott

On 4/10/07, Scott Ledyard <scott at redboot.biz> wrote:
>
> My experience was Feisty Herd 5, maybe the next step resolved bugs. At
> this point, I'll check out the release on the 19th.
>
> On 4/10/07, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Scott Ledyard wrote:
> >
> > > Yikes! I've had nothing but problems using Network Manager. (Example:
> > Assign
> > > a static IP to a NIC, unplug the patch cable and NW negotiates a
> > zeroconf
> > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-configuration>IP in the
> > 169.254.x.xrange)
> > >
> > > Are you finding it's become more stable in the 7.04 beta?
> >
> > I guess I should be specific and say that I've had very positive
> > experiences of it over the past week in Feisty (7.04 beta) but prior to
> > that I tried to use it in edgy and it was a shambles.  It seems to have
> > improved substantially now though.  Nice clean support for WPA, lets you
> > pick which wifi network from those available and the wired connection
> > (if
> > present).  It's very laptop/desktop oriented, but that's what it's for,
> > servers should probably be using /etc/network/interfaces.
> >
> > Gavin
> >
> >
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