[Mageia-dev] PING for bug 2160

Balcaen John mikala at mageia.org
Sun Sep 25 18:05:18 CEST 2011


Le Dimanche 25 Septembre 2011 11:21:51 Frank Griffin a écrit :
> Could someone please review
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2160 ?
> 
> The bug has been confirmed by others, but has been outstanding for
> over 2 months with no improvement.
> 
> I really think a decision needs to be made here.  If we don't have the
> expertise to fix NM, and if upstream won't, then I'd like us to
> reevaluate why it is in the distro at all.  Apparently there are many
> wireless devices that NetworkManager can't handle, and by default, it
> is not enabled for wired devices, so I question why it's needed.
Because of gnome 3.

> Perhaps it should be moved to testing for those hardy souls for which
> it is useful, but I really can't see Mageia 2 going out the door with
> this level of wireless breakage.
Well so far nm is still not the default network manager for mageia.

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Balcaen John


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