On Wednesday 07 January 2009 23:59:13 Craig White wrote:
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 17:46 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com>
wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 17:36 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com>
wrote:
> >> > On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 16:40 -0500, Mark Haney
wrote:
> >> >> I'm still waiting on someone to give me a good rational reason
why
> >> >> this change was made. If I get one that makes sense, then I
might
> >> >> shut up about this, otherwise, to me NM is just re-inventing the
> >> >> wheel to no purpose.
> >> >
> >> > ----
> >> > and that's been discussed on this list many, many, many times
since
> >> > I think it was Jim Wilkinson started playing with this concept of
> >> > NetworkManager and userland.
> >>
> >> People who make comments like this have probably never tried to roam
> >> around with a wifi connection.
> >
> > ----
> > I don't see any bug reports with your e-mail address attached...
>
> I use pembo13 instead of pemboa for bug reports, pemboa is just for
> mailing lists, same email provider.
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WPA supplicant sucks on all OS's ;-(
How odd, then, that this laptop running Mandriva and my EeePC running Xandros
have no problem with it.
> And I was referring to Mark Haney's comments.
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so was I originally...userland control is essential to the growth of
Linux.
The people who gripe about NM seem to always be the ones who are more
than capable of becoming superuser so NM seems to be a barrier to them.
No. Many of the people who gripe about NM are ones who have followed every
instruction and advice given and still can't get the d****** thing to work.
I'm sure it's wonderful when it does, but you can't stick your head in the
sand and pretend that there are no problems.
Anne