Wireless Network Key

[Derek Broughton]

Chris Jones wrote:

> 
>> I hear you - that's very clearly the sort of thing NM doesn't handle
>> well, if at all, but the majority of users probably don't use more than
>> one wireless, rarely more than two, so scripting for an edge case is
>> probably not the best overall solution.
> 
> I accept I'm likely an edge case, as you put it, but I also use many
> different networks, wired and wireless, and NM has always been able to
> seamlessly connect to all of them. I guess out mileages vary...

OK, so you're demonstrating that "if at all" is too extreme :-)  I really
believe the first line of attack to fix network problems is to try to get
NM to work first, I just recognize that there are people whose network
topologies aren't a good fit for NM - but the number of such people is
getting fewer and fewer.  I used NM _before_ it was part of Ubuntu - and
had many problems with it, but felt it was definitely the correct way to go
and stuck with it as much as possible.  Every so often, though, I find a
situation that isn't being well handled - imo, almost always because of
shortcomings in the actual network drivers in origin, but NM doesn't work
around those shortcomings the way some other wireless tools will.
-- 
derek