NetworkManager (was: Are these official fc4 iso's?)

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 04:12:22PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Here's a question though; why
> do you think that OS X only supports their own Airport wireless cards?

Don't start me on OS X. Recently I had a misfortune to be forced to
configure a wireless connection for OS X and that experience left me
really disgusted.  First of all, as far I was told, it is not
entirely correct that you have to use Airport; but for other cards
you have to buy an extra software so you may as well stick with
Airport.  It will cost you the same or less then other combinations.

It turns out that OS X, at least with "native" drivers, will not do
WPA.  This detail is not mentioned anywhere in what can pass for a
documentation, nor on that "user-friendly" interface.  You will only
get some weird and uncomprehensible errors.  Even WEP requires you
to do some strange moves.  The only help you can find is on the web,
even if sizeable portions of that are plainly wrong, so if this is
your only network connection you are screwed.  Possibly a totally
open connection would be "easy" to set but that I did not try.

If that happens to be your "gold standard of user-friendly" then
no wonder that NetworkManager looks nice in a comparison.

   Michal