Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and NetworkManager

[Todd Goodman]

* Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> [130715 15:09]:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> > unmerge nm and everything associated with it.
> > Comment out all lines in /etc/conf.d/net
> >
> > emerge wicd with the USE flags of your choice.
> >
> > All your problems will instantly go away, stay away, and wicd will do
> > the right thing always for networking. I promise.
>
> If the problem is that the user is not in the plugdev group, it will
> also happen with wicd, which makes this one of the worsts pieces of
> advice I have seen in this list. Which is a lot to say.

Hardly

>
> > networkmanager is a horribly broken piece of shit that per user reports
> > never seems to actually work for people.
>
> It works for me. In all kind of networks in several continents, with
> all kind of WEP, WPA, and WPA2 networks, connecting through my
> cellphone and obviously with ethernet too.

It seems to work for very simple network setups that don't change often.

>
> Funny you said that Alan, when was the last time you heard about a
> problem with NM in the list? I count less than 20 mails *mentioning*
> NM in the list in 2013, and none of them are (IIRC) direct problems
> with NM.

Most of us who have found out how horrible NM is have stopped using it
long ago so you don't see us posting with problems.

>
> > You should not use software like that.
>
> You should do a little more research before saying something like that
> about a piece of software that just works most of the time.

As long as we're telling people what to do I'll tell you to step out
of your ivory tower once in a while to get a broader picture of the
world.

Todd