NM bug? Ad-hoc network

[Chris Jones]

Chris Mohler wrote:
> I've been on the road recently, and needed to share my wired
> connection with another machine (wirelessly).  So, right-clicked the
> NM applet, selected 'Create Wireless Network' and no joy.  WPA, then
> WEP, then wide open - no luck.  Then I installed 'dnsmasq-base' and
> had no trouble at all.
> 
> So, I gather that you could create a new network with NM then enter
> everything manually to get it to work - but should 'Create Wireless
> Network' even be shown if it's going to be that much of a PITA?  IOW,
> does it seem reasonable to file an enhancement request to make
> wireless sharing easier?  I can't think of any reason why it should
> not be extremely easy 'out of the box'.
> 
> Thoughts?
> Chris

You should be careful to not blame NM for problems that are actually 
caused by poor wireless card drivers. In my experience most problems 
people blame on NM are actually not NM's fault but elsewhere.

 From memory the NM devs are (rightly in my view) quite strict on not 
polluting their code with workarounds and nasty hacks for poorly 
behaving drivers. Their view is fix the problems at source.

I'm not necessarily saying this is what is happening here, just you 
should probably do some investigating first to try and find out where 
the real problem is, before posting bug reports.

cheers Chris