wireless-tools/net-tools are DEPRECATED

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 04/24/2011 10:43 PM, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
>> I've found NM to actually be quite tolerant of spotty wireless connections. 
>> In fact, usually, it's me who triggers a reconnect (or if possible, a 
>> connect to a different access point, e.g. when I'm at the university in a 
>> shared building with the business university (WU), I try switching from 
>> eduroam to eduroam-wu when reception of my university's eduroam is poor), NM 
>> just happily stays "connected" even with 100% packet loss.
> Ah, that's different than when I last used NM on my laptop due to these
> issues (F13 beta-ish timeframe)

It isn't useful to talk about NM from that time period anymore.  There
has been major rewrites of it and current NM is not even comparable
really.  Try the latest and then offer comments. 

Rahul