On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 13:53 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I wonder if the aims and hopes of the NM developers > are documented anywhere?
Various places, including the NM website under Developers/Design Goals, and in various emails to this mailing list. For example, from March 12, 2006: "As we continue to develop NetworkManager, we're going to build it out to support more use cases. NM was originally developed for just one targetted use case; that of laptop and mobile users. The goal is to build to support more cases, but still make laptop and mobile cases drop-dead simple." > Is it hoped that it will work with all wireless devices > for which there is a Linux driver (including ndiswrapper)? Yes, if ndiswrapper supports WEXT, which it appears to. The latest version in CVS appears to support WEXT-19 for WPA, which is quite nice. It means we don't need to special-case ndiswrapper. > Or will it only work for cards, etc, with certain properties - > eg ability to go into Monitor mode - > which are not actually necessary in order to run under Linux? Monitor mode is not needed. Any card/driver that supports WEXT should work; but note that many drivers have little quirks that have to be fixed up along the way before they will _reliably_ work with wpa_supplicant and NetworkManager. For these we need debug logs. > I have an Orinoco classic Gold PCMCIA card > (in fact several of them, > including ones in USB and PCI adapters), > and I have never been able to get NM to work with them. That should be supported, though in recent kernels I've had problems with that card. Robert Love posted a patch to wpa_supplicant a bit ago that should have fixed that little incompatibility. Note that you have to make sure that only _one_ driver out of hostap/orinoco binds to your card... if both bind to it, nothing good happens. That's a Linux issue though, and not unique to NM. Put "blacklist hostap_cs" in your /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file. > Also is it intended that NM should work with KDE? Yes, NM itself is desktop-agnostic. If you want a native KDE applet, look for KNetworkManager. It is not yet packaged in Fedora. As you've described your setup (FC5 + orinoco + KDE), it appears that NM should work for you in principle. There may, however, be bugs that we need to work through. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list