2011/8/1 Thomas Lottmann <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > I should have written this mail much sooner, but finally, I am totally, > completely and starting to be hatefully fed up of these tools. > > The Mandriva/Mageia tools that manage the network on computers, especially > the wireless networks are completely dysfunctional. While the Network Center > does not seem to even communicate with the system tools to know what is > happening during the link setup, it does not auto-refresh network lists > properly. > > Since 2010.1 now even mixes up itself in it's own network scripts (the ones > stored in wireless.d). This maxes it wrongly detect numerous wireless points > (he seen WPA2 Enterperise hotspots as opened or WEP, or more nerving, > becomes incapable or storing the right authentication information). A tool > that breaks itself is a complete shame! > > The GUI is also appalling. Despite it's numerous possibilities, it is a mess > and 60% of it cannot be used by something else than the system or a network > expert. > > The code itself is undocumented and it extremely difficult to read. > > These tools are getting really bad and not working properly anyway since a > long time now. So either we fix it and improve it (recoding?), either we > definitely switch to Network Manager. I am ready to participate if necessary > (despite my lack of competence), but I do not want to see these tools 'as > is' on my computer anymore, and no longer want to see these issues that down > Mageia's reputation in comparison to other popular projects here such as > Arch, Fedora or Ubuntu, who do have proper tools delivered by default. > > This is not the first time I complain about this tool. We should not leave > this unchanged. It is far too annoying and pushing to so much loss of time.
While I cannot confirm the problems you are talking about in former Mandriva (2010.x) nor in Mageia 1, I do have the problems in Mageia Cauldron, mostly caused by (guess what?) - network-manager! I reported about this in the forum (https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=869). Just current case: after an update run in Cauldron my wifi does not connect, then connects and disconnects again after a few seconds. After trying several measurements like removing the setup-script, removing the connection in MCC, etc., all without result, I de-installed network-manager and configured wifi again by the draktool without NM - it works now. As you see, my "mileage" varies from yours. :) -- wobo
