I am sure Thomas is just venting his fustration with the state of wireless the same way we vent about kernel wireless modules being dismal. I don’t think it is FUD, the wireless story on Linux does suck but it is getting better thanks to you and Dan and everyone else who does contribute. Hey there are even times when I want to vent my fustrations on gstreamer :-)

A couple of hurdles to NetworkManager need to be addressed such as getting in the new session code in so it will be easier to start nm-applet automagicly. The wireless story won’t get better until drivers are better and manufactures start releasing there specs. I can say Intel has been a big help here and their wireless hardware seems to work the best because of it. Too bad they don’t sell PCMCIA cards and a lot of laptops whitelist mini-pci cards.

Also better documentation and visibility of the NetworkManager web page would help. Ohh, the web page comes up as the first hit for NetworkManager in google. That wasn’t always the case.

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