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[Adrian Bastholm]

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network managers fancy features are useless when basic stuff as wireless
networking management is broken every now and then. (most of the time for m=
e
anyway)

Regards,
Adrian

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>wrote=
:

> On ven, 2009-05-29 at 09:16 +0200, Grant Williamson wrote:
> > I do not see wicd as a replacement for networkmanager, wicd is a UI
> > which configures wpa_supplicant.
> > NetworkManager does so much more. Yes there may well be issues
> > outstanding with NM, but its the way
> > forward.
>
> NetworkManager manages=E2=80=A6 the network. If that's what you need, the=
n wicd
> can do the same. The goodies NM has are more devices managed (vpn, wwan,
> modem?) and some desktop integration (which is not unified and is
> kind-of broken for non GNOME users).
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Yves-Alexis
>
> --
> The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
>



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V=C3=A4nliga h=C3=A4lsningar / Kind regards,
Adrian Bastholm

I would change the world, but they won't give me the sourcecode

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network managers fancy features are useless when basic stuff as wireless ne=
tworking management is broken every now and then. (most of the time for me =
anyway)<br><br>Regards,<br>Adrian<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri,=
 May 29, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=
=3D"mailto:corsac@debian.org">corsac@debian.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, =
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On ven, 2009-05-2=
9 at 09:16 +0200, Grant Williamson wrote:<br>
&gt; I do not see wicd as a replacement for networkmanager, wicd is a UI<br=
>
&gt; which configures wpa_supplicant.<br>
&gt; NetworkManager does so much more. Yes there may well be issues<br>
&gt; outstanding with NM, but its the way<br>
&gt; forward.<br>
<br>
NetworkManager manages=E2=80=A6 the network. If that&#39;s what you need, t=
hen wicd<br>
can do the same. The goodies NM has are more devices managed (vpn, wwan,<br=
>
modem?) and some desktop integration (which is not unified and is<br>
kind-of broken for non GNOME users).<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
--<br>
Yves-Alexis<br>
<font color=3D"#888888"><br>
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The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:<br>
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ux-thinkpad</a><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br>V=C3=A4nliga h=
=C3=A4lsningar / Kind regards,<br>Adrian Bastholm<br><br>I would change the=
 world, but they won&#39;t give me the sourcecode<br>

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