Far from your experience and knowledge essentially i'm lurking. But, i'm wondering why no one mentions ceni whcih in my experience (as a user!) works fine. And even me, i was able to manage umts sticks using ceni.
Just my 2 cents. Cheers and thanks a lot for your work! Isaac Dunham <ibid...@gmail.com>: > Message: 5 Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 16:36:25 -0800 From: Isaac Dunham > <ibid...@gmail.com> To: "dng@lists.dyne.org" <dng@lists.dyne.org> > Subject: Re: [Dng] NetworkManager alternative Message-ID: > <20141227003624.GC1800@newbook> Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=us-ascii 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
