Network Manager

[David Donnelly]

On Sat, 2005-26-02 at 13:15 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> David Donnelly wrote:
> 
> > I am very impressed with this program. Good work to the creator(s).
> > http://fedoranews.org/contributors/jim_lawrence/network_manager/
> 
> Sadly, I cannot concur.
> 
> In the first place, this program appears to be
> completely lacking in any documentation,
> apart from the fairly useless README in /usr/share/doc/NetworkManager* .
> 
> Secondly, NetworkManager makes unspecified changes in config files
> which are not restored when the program is stopped.
> 
> Thirdly, as far as I can see NetworkManager
> tries to make my WiFi card (a bog-standard Orinico Gold PCMCIA card)
> perform operations that it is not capable of,
> causing my laptop to hang.
> 
> Fourthly, as you mention it is not clear what relation
> NetworkManager has to NetworkManagerInfo.
> On my laptop the latter program sometimes starts the little windmill icon,
> and sometimes does not,
> in which case the only way I know the program is running is with "ps".
> 
> Fifthly, when the program is running,
> I do not understand the option I am offered
> between "Add new connection" and "Other connection".
> 
> (I should say that I am running Fedora-3 with linux-2.6.10.)
> 
> A working network wizard would be a great addition to Linux.
> Sadly NetworkManager does not currently fulfil that role.
> The best one can say is that it is no worse than
> system-config-network* and the other wizards based on this.
> 
> I would suggest that before "improving" NetworkManager
> some intelligible documentation should be provided,
> preferably in the form of a man page or an info file.
-- 
> Timothy Murphy  
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I agree the lack of good documentation is a bit of a problem. I wouldn't
have had to ask the question if I could have read it myself :-)

Hopefully your comments have been noted by the developers and will be
addressed in the future.

Regards,
David Donnelly

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