https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429772 User milisav.radmanic@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429772#c17 --- Comment #17 from Milisav Radmanic <milisav.radmanic@novell.com> 2008-11-12 07:02:02 MST --- (In reply to comment #16 from Stefan Seyfried)
The bug is not invalid. The bug is maybe "WONTFIX" if you really want to document that you don't care about the user experience.
Currently there is no way to use both wireless LAN (where you need NetworkManager) and certain kinds of dialup (which are not supported by NetworkManager yet but for which solutions exist, e.g. kinternet, wvdial and umtsmon), which, for a user, makes for a very bad experience.
So If you close the bug, close it as WONTFIX since this documents the "We don't care" best.
I understand your disappointment in this case, but the issue is not that we don't want to fix something that is broken, it is more that your request hits a crucial point. Network Manager comes with its own code for managing many aspects of the network. This functionality is separate and additional to the "traditional" setup routines. Network Manager is not a remote control for the board utilities it does the tricks on its own. As such we cannot guarantee proper operation if we mix authorities. Whenever Network Manager is set to rule the network, the traditional setup has to stay away and vice versa. Your request would result in a hybrid which can't be kept consistent. The solution is either Network Manager gets enabled to support the lacking ppp-connections and/or the traditional setup tools learn how to setup wlan accordingly. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.