Re: Network Manager

[David Donnelly]

On Sat, 2005-26-02 at 13:15 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>  David Donnelly wrote:
>  
>  > I am very impressed with this program. Good work to the creator(s).
>  > http://fedoranews.org/contributors/jim_lawrence/network_manager/
>  
>  Sadly, I cannot concur.
>  
>  In the first place, this program appears to be
>  completely lacking in any documentation,
>  apart from the fairly useless README in /usr/share/doc/NetworkManager* .
>  
>  Secondly, NetworkManager makes unspecified changes in config files
>  which are not restored when the program is stopped.
>  
>  Thirdly, as far as I can see NetworkManager
>  tries to make my WiFi card (a bog-standard Orinico Gold PCMCIA card)
>  perform operations that it is not capable of,
>  causing my laptop to hang.
>  
>  Fourthly, as you mention it is not clear what relation
>  NetworkManager has to NetworkManagerInfo.
>  On my laptop the latter program sometimes starts the little windmill icon,
>  and sometimes does not,
>  in which case the only way I know the program is running is with "ps".
>  
>  Fifthly, when the program is running,
>  I do not understand the option I am offered
>  between "Add new connection" and "Other connection".
>  
>  (I should say that I am running Fedora-3 with linux-2.6.10.)
>  
>  A working network wizard would be a great addition to Linux.
>  Sadly NetworkManager does not currently fulfil that role.
>  The best one can say is that it is no worse than
>  system-config-network* and the other wizards based on this.
>  
>  I would suggest that before "improving" NetworkManager
>  some intelligible documentation should be provided,
>  preferably in the form of a man page or an info file. 
-- 
>  Timothy Murphy  
>  e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
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>  s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland 
  
I agree the lack of good documentation is a bit of a problem. I wouldn't
have had to ask the question if I could have read it myself :-)

Hopefully your comments have been noted by the developers and will be
addressed in the future.

Regards,
David Donnelly

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