The case against NetworkManager

[Andrew Parker]

On 10/9/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > I don't think this is a good idea.
> > NM does not work with my Orinoco PCMCIA classic gold card.
> > It sends out a message saying something like "Get a better card".
> > Basically, I believe the Orinoco card does not support
> > the kind of scanning that NM uses.
>
> That is a fault in the driver that needs to be fixed. Make sure you have
> a bug report filed.

I don't believe this to be *always* THE CASE.  My understanding is
that NM uses features not available in some hardware (as oppised to
missing from the drivers).