wicd - better wireless network manager than NetworkManager?

[lostson]

On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:34:18 +0000
Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:

> Izhar Firdaus wrote:
> 
> > looking @ the screenshot, it looks more like a wrapper GUI for
> > wpa_supplicant , iwconfig, and ifconfig and require user-configuration
> > - and focus more for ethernet and wlans. NetworkManager in the other
> > hand, is more for JustWorks(tm) with broad range of supported
> > connections and features. Static IP, Connection Sharing, and several
> > other cool stuff are also on the way for NetworkManager 0.7
> 
> The trouble is, NM doesn't "just work" for lots of people (including me),
> as is obvious from this newsgroup/mailing list.
> 
> In my view, what is needed is a program that just deals with WiFi,
> and which tells you what is wrong if the connection fails.
> In my experience, NM and system-config-network (in its various guises)
> are both quite bad at this.
> 
> 
 You may want to look into wi-fi radar which is here 

 http://wifi-radar.systemimager.org/

 and it is in the repo's. I use it all the time and it works great for me.

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