How does Fedora want "ordinary people" to manage mobile network computing?

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Tue Apr 25 05:41:00 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 23:20 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I'm an "old hand" at Linux, and am able to make my wired & wireless
> connections work, but only with some difficulty.  Yesterday I helped a
> young lady install linux on a laptop and found it darned-near
> impossible to explain to her how she is supposed to handle the problem
> of going for place-to-place, using different wired and wireless
> networks.  So I wondered if the Gnome or KDE folks had worked this
> out.

The path they are taking is network-manager.
I haven't tried it in FC5 - but in FC4 it worked for me to a point, but
kept dropping my connection (I use madwifi). So I do it manually now.

Hopefully as network-manager improves, that won't be necessary.
I should try it in fc5 to see how well it works - maybe they have made
it better.

I like how moms Dell does it under Windows XP - first time she came to
visit, I had to give her my info. Now - whenever she is here, it just
figures out to use my network. She doesn't have to do anything. Just
works.




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