On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 09:04:57PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > Hi folks, > > which alternative to NetworkManager do you suggest ? > > For mobile systems (eg. notebooks) I really like the idea of > automatic network setup, but NM is really a pain in the ass, so I'll > have to decide whether trying to fix it or pick something else.
I would suggest wifiradar, if it's still maintained and you aren't looking for dialer/ethernet support. When I used it in the past it seemed to work well. Locally, I now use wpanet (https://github.com/idunham/wpanet), which I wrote after getting annoyed because /etc/init.d/networking is blocking, wicd occasionally worked poorly with my drivers (did you know that if you start a dhcp client at just the wrong moment during association of a madwifi-supported wireless card, it will cause a kernel panic?), busybox ifup didn't support wireless networking, and so on. While there is a basic configuration script included in that and it sets up my wireless properly, I would not recommend it yet unless the user is a geek who knows about or wants to learn about raw wpa_supplicant. I made it public mostly because I keep finding network scripts that seem to be something along the lines of: #connect to network we stored in 1234567890abcdef.conf wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c /var/${DAEMON_CONF}/1234567890abcdef.conf -B # wait for it to connect, then start the dhcp client sleep 3 dhclient wlan0 and I wanted to have a public example of how to use wpa_cli -a. (TL;DR: In my experience, every network manager does *something* wrong, and it always seemed to cause trouble for me. So I wrote my own.) HTH, Isaac Dunham _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
