Issue : wireless networking "on-the-fly"

[Andy Somerville]

On 2/14/06, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Le lundi 13 février 2006 à 11:50 +0100, Lionel Dricot (aka Ploum) a
> écrit :
> > Hello (again ;-) ),
> > - network-admin is pure crap. I don't know anyone that understand how
> > to make different places with it.
>
> Thanks for the constructive comment :) I agree it's not optimal but
> suggestions on how to make it better are welcome and would be useful
> compared to that comment ...
>
I think plain criticism (non constructive) is useful as well. When you
are working with usability its often not easy to say *why* something
is not good. I think it would be appropriate to expect that many
criticisms will not come with suggestion for improvement. And I think
being able to avoid from taking things personally will allow us to
take seriously a much wider ranger of comments and use them to improve
things.

Still it would be nice if some qualifiers prettier than "crap" were used ; )



>> - A very long boot because it waits for a timeout on eth0 (while eth0
>> is obviously not connected)
>
>Is eth0 a wireless card? Does it use dhcp? Anyway that's not really a
>desktop bug ...

I have had similar issues where the exact same thing works by hand but
does not using the network admin tools (breezy). So it validly can be
a desktop problem.

Anyways, there were problems with wireless on Breezy and I have to
agree that it should be considered an important goal for future
releases and dapper in particular.

Here's to hoping NM stabilizes soon.


     Andy