[Mageia-dev] Drakxnet, drakroam and Draknetcenter : let's fix it or throw it.

Mon Aug 1 13:10:08 CEST 2011

2011/8/1 Thomas Lottmann <skipercooker at gmail.com>:
+> 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
+