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Re: wireless without network-manager... is it still possible?



On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon 23 May 2016 at 09:07:36 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
>> On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 11:38:39PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>> > On Sunday 22 May 2016 22:56:36 Richard Owlett wrote:
>> > >
>> > > So what ever B**** says goes?
>> > > Please *NO* !!!!!
>> >
>> > Richard - this snipping is very misleading.  It was not Tomas whom Brian was
>> > calling incompetent - in fact, quite the opposite.  I can't quite see why
>> > Tomas has taken such fright, except that both the others were putting things
>> > rather strongly.  But *nothing* that Brian said could reasonably have been
>> > interpreted, as you appear to have done, as Brian telling Tomas to leave the
>> > thread.
>>
>> Exactly, Lisi. I'm too old to watch people slinging mud at each other
>> ("asshole", "incompetent") like kids. I mean, I feel strongly about
>> software, that's why I'm here, and I feel strongly about free software
>> and its social value, but my time is just too precious for that nonsense.
>>
>> So you got it right.
>
> The OP deposited his FUD in -user (twice), completely ignored the
> invitation to explore a technical solution using ifupdown and has now

Regardless of ifupdown, I want network-manager to work
like it's supposed to, i.e. the same way in a dbus-launch-spawned
session as under gnome.  It doesn't.  That a bug, not FUD.

> taken himself off to -devel, which is not renowned for suffering the
> spreading of misinformation.

There's agreement on devel that it's not FUD.  I posted a detailed
description of the problem there.  Go read it and send me something
useful instead of more groundless claims that bug reports on
network-manager are FUD.

> One hopes his transition to there was not
> due to anything *I* said and he gets a glimmer of clue, :)

It was partly due to you, I'm hoping for more substantive responses there.

Britton


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