Is NetworkManager working for you?

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I'm running NetworkManager (NM) under Fedora-6 with KDE,
but am not entirely happy with it,
and I'm wondering what the general experience
of Fedora/KDE users is with NM?

What worries me is that NM is completely unpredictable,
in my experience.
This morning, for instance, on re-booting my ThinkPad laptop
NetworkManager said it was connected to my Linksys WRT54GL access point,
but in fact I could not access my WiFi LAN.

I have tried running "service NetworkManager restart"
but that has never succeeded when NetworkManager has failed.
In fact it seems to send my PCMCIA Orinoco Gold WiFi card
into a state of complete stupor,
with the main light on the card (showing it is working)
turned off.

NetworkManager does have some advantages over the basic
Fedora wireless network setup,
which I also found extremely unsatisfactory.
In particular the profile setup never worked for me.

But I'm wondering whether to persist with NM,
or to try to get some other WiFi software working.
(Someone mentioned wifi-radar -
I don't know if there is anything else.)

The WiFi setup under Fedora is really appallingly bad.
There is no proper documentation,
and such Help files as are provided seem completely useless.

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