Problem setting up wired networking

[Timothy Murphy]

On Friday 14 November 2008 00:08:00 Scott Robbins wrote:
> If you want to do it manually, I have a page that has a link to an
> excellent howto at
> http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/rhwireless.html
>
> Look for the link to the tutorial by the gentleman named Mike.
>
>
> There's a great deal on the page about your card as well, but it's
> almost all unnecessary with the 2.6.27 kernel, which supports it with
> the ath5k module.
>
> Note that the page has nothing to do with NM, it's just about
> configuring the card through various command line tools and files.

So basically, it is describing an alternative to NM
for establishing a WiFi connection?

(It wasn't clear to me if it is recommended for all WiFi cards,
or just for the ones listed.)