Is NetworkManager working for you?

[R. G. Newbury]

> 
> On Sunday 24 December 2006 09:26, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> I'm running NetworkManager (NM) under Fedora-6 with KDE,
>> but am not entirely happy with it,
> 
>     Ditto - what I suspect we need is something like IBM's access connections 
> (on windows - yes I know) - its outstanding. 
> 
>     I move my laptop between wired, wireless, static and dhcp, at work at 
> several locations and at home as well as on the road (hotels, t-mobile and so 
> on). I found NM lacking in my situation when I last tried (i have not looked 
> at the latest version - maybe it can handle all this  now)
> 
>     My solution was to create a little sudo script to setup what I need then I 
> bound them to a KDE little slider panel. Click panel - it opens i click icon 
> for my location and it runs the script <location> - wired or wireless. Script 
> updates resolv.conf, network settings and keys, DNS (if neeeded), ntp, 
> sendmail etc. The scripts map the name given as an argument to a directory 
> and uses whatever is in there - resolv.conf, ifcfg-eth0 etc. So quite easy to 
> add new location info. 
> 
>   This is simple and works for me. But  I concur it would be nice to have 
> something that is easy to set up out of the box and gives you control to set 
> up the things that need changing - without having to know where to put 
> keys.eth1 and so on. 

That sounds good and exactly what I need. Could you post the script(s) 
please?

And maybe post them as a page at linux on laptops  (linux-laptop.net).

Geoff