On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:26:14PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
On Friday 14 November 2008 00:10:19 Jesse Keating wrote:
> For the cases where you need to do advanced configuration, and
> NetworkManager can't handle it, you can turn it off and use the old
> network service. It's a lot easier for the class of folks that need
> this to do it, than for the class of folks who need easy to use casual
> networking to work easily for them to switch off 'network' and turn on
> 'NetworkManager'.
In my experience the network service does not, and never did,
work properly (with WiFi).
It used to, and still does, work with plain WEP connections.
For wpa_supplicant-managed it needs to be patched, but still works just
fine.
To start with, it was more or less incompatible with
system-config-network.
NM has its faults - many of them - but by comparison with the network service
it is utopia.
I would never advise anyone I like to use the network service.
I would never advise anyone I like to use NetworkManager.
Regards,
R.
--
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl> | LAN Staff
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling
Warsaw University |
http://www.icm.edu.pl | tel. +48 (22) 5540810