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.ag@???>:
> Message: 5 Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 16:36:25 -0800 From: Isaac Dunham
> <ibid.ag@???> To: "dng@???" <dng@???>
> 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