Wpa_supplicant mystery
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 11 20:07:57 UTC 2008
On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 15:21 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > <snip>
> >> Documentation? NM has been around since FC6, and people seem to keep
> >> saying that the documentation is being worked on. At least on FC9beta it
> >> really didn't work, ignored the hardwire, and brought the WiFi up on a
> >> random open AP. I live between an apartment building and a college,
> >> there are enough open APs available to choose.
> >> nations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
> >>
> > http://live.gnome.org/DarrenAlbers/NetworkManagerFAQ
> >
> >
> > http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager
> >
> I appreciate that you're trying to be helpful, but the FAQ does
> hand-waving instead of giving useful answers.
>
> Example
>
> Q: "How does NetworkManager select which wireless network to connect to?"
>
> A: (part1) NM only attempts to automatically connect to networks you
> have previously told it to connect to. [not the case, it picked one]
The one it picks is generally the one you connected to last. I know you
are going to say you never connected before. No matter look at comment
under A. part2.
>
> (part2) If NM isn't connecting to the network you want, try to force it
> to connect to the network you wish to be connected,... [If I knew how to
> force it I wouldn't be reading the FAQ, now, would I?]
You left click on nm-applet icon and choose the AP ypu wnat to connect
to.
>
> (part3) In version 0.6.6 and later there is a profile editor that can be
> used to add/remove networks. [Again, effort saved by not bothering to
> tell the user HOW to get that tool running]
>
>
> All it would take is a hyperlink at each point where the reader is told
> to do something unfamiliar. However, not only is there no hyperlink, the
> index points to a single sentence on doing this, "For version 0.6.6 or
> later Use the Network Profile editor to remove unwanted networks." Do I
> have to tell you that there doesn't appear to be a link in the table of
> contents which describes the Network Profile Editor and how one accesses it?
>
>
> I have written documentation for GE, IBM, SBC and technical articles for
> national magazines, I've dealt with enough editors to know that this FAQ
> is simply not well written for the target audience. And if I knew the
> topic I would offer to make changes, but I don't. But as people are
> forced to switch from known easy to use tools like
> system-config-network, a lot of people are going to be unhappy trying to
> learn a complex tool of limited capabilities.
>
> I would have hoped that there would be a simple way to enter a list of
> APs, and an option to use any of them if only one were available, if
> more than one were available ASK, if none of the preferred list are
> available ASK. That suggestion came from someone about FC6...
>
> --
>
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
> the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
>
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