Hello (again ;-) ), Today I would like to talk you about ducks... (herm, too much brazil, forget it) I would like to raise one big issue that was in Ubuntu since the stone ages : wireless connectivity. I've installed a incredible number of Ubuntu during the last 15 months, for my friends, for people who came to my install parties, for my family, etc... The very bad thing is that I cannot remember one wifi-enabled install where I didn't use the command line. There's several issues : - A very long boot because it waits for a timeout on eth0 (while eth0 is obviously not connected) - No way to easily fiddle between eth0 or wlan0 - network-admin is pure crap. I don't know anyone that understand how to make different places with it. - network-admin is pure crap, 2 : it takes ages (really ages) to change between two connections and, most of the time, the change simply not occur or the connection is lost. - network-admin is pure crap, 3 : often, it will eats 100% of the CPU without reason and without doing anything. - NetworkManager is maybe good but I don't understand what I have to do. The only thing it does, for now, is to reset my resolv.conf to a empty file. - I cannot understand how those network-admin, NM, wifi-radar, ... work with the standard /etc/init.d/networking I've seen this page <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkMagic">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkMagic</a> for a long time now but nothing seems to happen. I could understand if the problem was an hard one. But, most of the time, I solved it by writing a quick and dirty bash script that change the /etc/network/interface file and I do several shortcuts that make : "sudo ./change_network.sh location1", "sudo ./change_network.sh location2", ... I know that things with a lot of D-Bus, Hal, and this sort of things are better. My bash script solution is awful. Badly, it's the only one who seems to work for a lot of people... So, can anyone tell me : - What are the plans for this goal. - What are the big problems that I don't understand - What is already done. - What must be done (and what I can do ;-) ) I really hope to see a default Dapper install where networking is really easy. I'm not a MacOSX fan at all, but I must admit that it works really good in this particular case. So, if they did it, we can do it 2X better, as usually ;-) Lionel