NetworkManager?

[Stéphane Graber]

Soren Hansen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 03:38:43PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>> Sure, NM doesn't work correctly if: 
> 
>> * you have any wireless card other than an Intel IPW 2100 or 2200, or
>> an Atheros card supported by madwifi-ng
> 
> Do the wireless- config keys in /etc/network/interfaces work in this
> case?
> 
>>  * you have a software-controlled wifi kill switch
> 
> Hmm... How does it fail in this case? AFAICS it'll just keep trying to
> connect, but obviously fail at some point.
> 
>>  * you have one of several different wired ethernet cards
> 
> Do you mean if you have more than one card or if you have particular
> ethernet cards?  In the latter case, is the problem lack of link
> detection in the driver or something like that?
> 
>>  * you require a static IP address on any interface
> 
> True. As mentioned anywhere this would probably require the notion of
> locations and a means to detect your current location... Any suggestions
> on how to detect this?
> 
>>  * you require your own DNS configuration
> 
> True. This will also be much easier to solve if there is a location
> concept.
> 
>>  * you attempt to suspend or hibernate your laptop
> 
> AFAICT this is a timing issue. NetworkManager DOES handle your
> suspending, but I think it tries to wake up again too soon (ie. before
> the driver or hardware is totally ready) and then fails in interesting
> ways.
> 
>>  * you need networking to work before a user logs in
> 
> I'm not totally sure about this one. If you have such requirements, it's
> likely to be on a server and hence out of scope for network manager?
> Sure, it'd be nice if network manager handled it, too, but I don't see
> it as a showstopper for inclusion into ubuntu-desktop.
> 
> 
It can be annoying if your company uses NFS or CIFS network shares you 
want to be mounted at boot (for example to have shared /home directory) 
without these mounts at boot, you will have some serious problems to log 
on your computer.

Btw, I saw that NetworkManager worked with a daemon and a GUI, can't the 
daemon store something like a default network and connect it at boot ?

Stéphane Graber