NetworkManager tutorials?

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 20 April 2006 08:47, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 00:42 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> Subject...Is there such a thing?  I've browsed the limited docs
>> installed on FC5, without finding anything that tells me how to
>> configure it.  All I know is that if I start those 2 daemons, I have
>> to manually restart the network to restore service, and
>> that /etc/NetworkManager is an empty directory.
>>
>> --
>
>Could you explain what you mean by restarting the network since that
> may not be correct.

As in 'service network restart'

Starting the NM daemon apparently takes me offline.

I note at the bottom of the redhat link that it says broadcom stuff 
doesn't work, presumably because its ndiswrappered.

I know that ndiswrapper generated some pretty vociferous condemnations 
from the GPL defenders, but it there's no other way to do it, what are 
we the users to do. We're hardly in a position to demand GPL chipsets 
in the lappy's we buy, particularly when they are so intertwined in FCC 
regulations that are specifically designed to keep us from hacking 
these 'software radios' to do illegal things. IMO thats unforch, but 
its a fact of life and we should learn to deal with it after we realize 
all the mewling in the world isn't going to change the regulatory 
agencies stance on this even if broadcom were of a mind to gpl their 
drivers.

Is there any hope that this will be addressed and NM made to work with 
an ndiswrappered chipset eventually?

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