[Gllug] Ubuntu, Fedora pains

[Christopher Hunter]

On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 12:41 +0100, John Winters wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:57:58 +0100, Richard Huxton <dev at archonet.com>
> wrote:
> [snip]
> > All fine, except for the pain that is NetworkManager - yes, please 
> > ignore my standard network settings and try your own after I log in 
> > (presumably all the youngsters change their CAT5 cabled IP address with 
> > their user accounts nowadays).
> 
> I ran into problems with NetworkManager on a clean Lenny installation the
> other day.  It worked fine to start with but as soon as I installed NIS it
> locked the workstation on boot by taking down the 'net connection at the
> wrong moment.
> 
> Except on laptops using WiFi it's best disabled.

I've had nothing but trouble with NM - it really is junk!  In almost
every Debian or Ubuntu install I've done, I've replaced it with WICD.
NM "loses" settings, fails to handle WPA2 properly and has too many
other problems to allow it to be useful!

C.

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