On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:26:14PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > On Friday 14 November 2008 00:10:19 Jesse Keating wrote: > > > For the cases where you need to do advanced configuration, and > > NetworkManager can't handle it, you can turn it off and use the old > > network service. It's a lot easier for the class of folks that need > > this to do it, than for the class of folks who need easy to use casual > > networking to work easily for them to switch off 'network' and turn on > > 'NetworkManager'. > > In my experience the network service does not, and never did, > work properly (with WiFi). It used to, and still does, work with plain WEP connections. For wpa_supplicant-managed it needs to be patched, but still works just fine. > To start with, it was more or less incompatible with system-config-network. > > NM has its faults - many of them - but by comparison with the network service > it is utopia. > > I would never advise anyone I like to use the network service. I would never advise anyone I like to use NetworkManager. Regards, R. -- Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl> | LAN Staff Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling Warsaw University | http://www.icm.edu.pl | tel. +48 (22) 5540810 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
