[Gllug] Linux migration in small businesses

[Matthew King]

Christopher Hunter <cehunter at gb-x.org> writes:

> On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 16:51 +0100, Ken Smith wrote:
>
>> Although I use FC8 daily as my desktop I still use W2K and XP as well. 
>> In FC8, I find NetworkManager truly obtuse. I'm afraid XP's (with SP2) 
>> ability to cope with Wireless Networks leaves NetworkManager standing 
>> floundering in the dark. (Sorry.. That's not a flame bait - just my 
>> experience - when I'm trying to sort wireless out I switch to XP)
>
> I had this issue with the current iteration of Ubuntu - Network Mangler
> was (at best) intermittent.  I found that the solution was to replace NM
> with WICD.  There is no comparison - WICD works remarkably well on every
> machine I've tried it on, whereas I've had nothing but trouble with
> NM.  

I don't get it. New systems all seem to come with NM by default, yet the
only thing I've ever seen it do is take down, and keep down, an
otherwise perfectly working, utterly normal one-nic-dhcp-only setup.

Wtf?

Nifty tip for Debian/Ubuntu users who just want it to Go Away And Leave
Your Computer Alone - add "post-up true" (with whitespace at the
beginning) immediately after the "iface eth0 inet dhcp" line. Stanzas
with any options are skipped by NM.

Matthew

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