Tool for switching networks (WiFi and non) easily?

Ed Fletcher ed at fletcher.ca
Wed Apr 20 04:44:52 UTC 2005


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Matt Zimmerman wrote:
| On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:25:16PM -0700, Ed Fletcher wrote:
|
|>Way, way back on the 10th of November 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
|>|
|>| We're integrating a tool called NetworkManager in Hoary.
|>|
|>| http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/NetworkManager
|>|
|>
|>I don't see this in Synaptic on Hoary.  I used this tool a lot with
|>Warty and really liked it.  The Wiki page Matt mentions hasn't been
|>touched in 4 months.  And the page the Wiki points to where I got it
|>last time (http://people.ubuntu.com/~thom/network-manager/) is just as
old.
|>
|>Does NetworkManager load under Hoary?  Or is there another wifi manager
|>included instead?
|>
|>Matt - I don't mean to hold your feet to the fire with an old e-mail, I
|>just found this when searching Thunderbird for the NetworkManager link.
|
|
| That was quite early in the Hoary release cycle; we later decided that it
| wasn't the right time to integrate it yet.  We're revisiting it for
Breezy,
| and will be discussing this at next week's Ubuntu Down Under conference.
|

Thanks Matt.  I hope you decide to include it in Breezy.  It's a pretty
useful tool on a laptop.

Ed
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Ed Fletcher
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?  -  Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

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