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

Mon Aug 1 15:29:36 CEST 2011

Le 01/08/2011 14:50, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
+> 2011/8/1 Sigrid Carrera<sigrid.carrera at googlemail.com>:
+>> Hi Wolfgang, *,
+>>
+>> On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 13:10:08 +0200
+>> Wolfgang Bornath<molch.b at googlemail.com>  wrote:
+>>> As you see, my "mileage" varies from yours. :)
+>> Yes, indeed, the experiences vary. But this doesn't mean, that one opinion or experience can be dismissed because you have some different experiences. (Wobo, this is not meant as a comment to you personally, it's more a general comment!)
+> That's what I wanted to say with my comment to Thomas' mail. :)
+> draknet and the others are not faulty in general, the same as
+> network-manager is not the general solution.
+I have been encountering repeatedly the same issues since more than 
+three months, and right now it has been happening repeatadly on other 
+laptops with the same issue (Drakxnet not able to understand it's own 
+config files). More weird now, on one of the laptops, he seems to not be 
+able to parse /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, for absolutely no reason.
+
+I set aside the other issues of the tool (the 'progress message' that is 
+in reality a timeout that gives you an error message while it is still 
+connecting... and other stuff).
+
+The other main issue I see si that Drakxnet is coded in Perl and uses a 
+lot of perl scripts, like the drakxtools. This makes it hard to 
+maintain, and to improve.
+
+If I posted this mail, it is because my experience is seriously downed 
+my this network tool that is absolutely not polished. It works, but you 
+need to understand it's way of working... which is not normal.
+
+I know it works fine for several people. Personally, I am often having 
+issues because it's disconnects on it's own, and no longer sees any 
+networks when it should. Then it has difficulty  reconnecting.
+
+Windows, Fedora and Ubuntu's wireless tools work absolutely smoothly at 
+my school. And now, other people testing Mageia as school are having the 
+same issues I have. This is frustrating and I can assure you these 
+home-made network tools have to be improved and fixed.
+
+If you want to, I can attempt to make a list of the isses and 
+incoherencies I find, although they are not hard to see. But as I 
+mentionned earlier, this is a tool that is hard to maintain, and I 
+cannot learn perl right now. This means someone else who knows pearl and 
+the tool may have to put his hands in it, and he may not have the time for.
+
+If NetworkManager is easier to maintain and works fine, then I think it 
+can be a better solution. Just offering or trying to find solutions, 
+because this tool seriously does not work properly here.
+
+My two cents,
+
+Thomas.
+