Network Manager

[Tom H]

>>> 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.

1) Please re-read my first reply. You seem to have misunderstood it completely.

2) The fact that you can find some internet post (and possibly an old
one; Ubuntu released a version in 2007 with a beta NM) does not make
that information correct.