Network Manager

[Karl F. Larsen]

Tom H wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 
>> I decided to learn how Network Manager (NM) works. I went to
>> Google and entered "ubuntu,networkmanager" and I got the usual
>> 10,000 hits.
> 
>> Starting from the first I read the next 5 web pages and the
>> whole experience was similar to trying to get NM to work. But
>> I did get that NM is still in Beta stage. Also most people
>> were not able to get NM to do WiFi. The goal of the NM program
>> is to have NM always work with a wired Internet, and
>> automatically switch to WiFi when wired Internet is turned off.
> 
>> Alas the WiFi part does not work.
> 
> I have only used Network Manager intermittently (when setting up boxes
> for family and friends or when installing a new version of a
> distribution) and it is the default app for managing network
> connections for SO MANY distributions that it is hard to believe that
> it is as bad as you and some others claim that it is. It has always
> worked perfectly well for the people for whom I have installed and
> configured it (I can assure you that they would be far less flattering
> of it and me than you are of NM if it failed, even irregularly). You
> have built up such a strong pre-conceived notion of NM's failings that
> it will never work for you.
> 
> Are you claiming that NM is beta software simply because it is version
> 0.8? If that is the case then Grub (1) was beta forever. Furthermore,
> it is the default at my previous and current employers where we were
> running a few thousand RHEL boxes each. I can assure you that we would
> have had to purge Grub from every box if it were beta, in order to
> prevent the "business-side" of the company from blaming our use of
> beta software for this or that server failure.
> 
> Please refrain from making such bizarre and unsubstantiated claims in
> a public forum.
> 
	Where did you get your Beta for grub version 1??? I got my 
Beta for NM from Google when I asked it to show me ubuntu,NM 
and it gave me 3 pages where NM was called Beta.

	Tell you what, I dislike 9.10 so much I will, using WiFi to 
my laptop change it back to NM and then you can tell me what I 
am doing wrong!

	Here is the whole situation: I have a WiFi router from Wal 
Mart costing $40.00 then. I now have a password on it so 
others can't share in my Internet. The laptop has zero 
problems getting the WiFi with wicd installed. I have no 
problem setting up wicd.

	Expect an answer of my success in an hour to this experiment.

Karl


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