On 21 November 2011 20:02, Frank Griffin <f...@roadrunner.com> wrote: > On 11/21/2011 02:14 PM, Marianne Lombard wrote: >> >> What will Mageia team do ? Continue to maintain and enhance drakx-net or >> follow all others distributions with NetworkManager ? > > There are a number of serious problems with NM that have not, to my > knowledge, been dealt with. It's particularly bad with wireless (which is > what Mageia tends to use it for the most); see bugs 856, 2160, 2416. Or > just google for NM problems (there's a ton of people having trouble with > it). > > One of the annoying things about it is that you can say "no" to it in the > ifcfg file, but it will try to handle the interface anyway. And if you look > in bug 2160, it appears that we have no maintainer for it. >
It has serious problems with wireless - then I guess that that means that drakx-net is still in the mental asylum. Its handling of all things wireless for me has been infinitely more polished than drakx-net