[Gnewsense-dev] Re: Selecting network-manager or wicd

[Karl Goetz]

On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:32:20 +0000
Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix - <address@hidden> wrote:

> Karl Goetz wrote:
> > It boils down to something like this:
> > network manager is integrated into lots of applications. does wicd
> > work with them? does it break them or 'just' not provide extra
> > features? I'm /not/ qualified to make the call about nm/wicd. I've
> > used neither recently, and I don't experience the use cases that
> > make the differences relevant.
> > I need feedback from a dozen people (5 would do, but a dozen
> > would be better. More is better.) saying how their daily work does
> > or does not improve using one over the other
> > kk
> 
> I have had it work well with atheros hardware.
> 
> However the question I have is what is the discussion on the Debian 
> mailing lists. Does it have the legs to keep going?

Another important consideration.

> It appears to have 84 bugs on its current sourceforge page, some of 
> which should have been closed with "Won't fix" imo.
>  From that place two bugs interested me.
> There is a suggestion there that it does not work in cli mode.
> It is not great when the signal strength is low it fails rather than 
> being low speed.
> 
> All this and more needs to be taken into consideration before a
> commit is made. Remember the deltas I mentioned recently, well this
> would be one of them!

This is a big delta. It needs extra consideration.
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
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