[conspire] (forw) Re: [ILUG] SLED10 review, hmmm, wireless lan so easy>?

[Don Marti]

begin Rick Moen quotation of Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:20:50AM -0700:
> Quoting conor at discuskeeping.com (conor at discuskeeping.com):
> 
> > http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;572131177;fp;4;fpid;2
> > 
> > Wireless LAN support (or lack of) is the reason I run MacOSX on my laptop.
> > I refuse to use those wrappers, they really annoy me. I would prefer a  
> > tainted kernel to be honest.
> > 
> > Might just give suse a go again. Anyone tried it?
> 
> It would have been nice if author McAllister had bothered to identify
> what wireless utility provided the "convenient GUI menu" from which he 
> picked his access point.  Saying "the OS did it" seems unhelpful.

He's probably looking at NetworkManager, which pops
up from the GNOME or KDE panel without identifying
itself.

http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/

It's a System Tray client, so can
run under GNOME, KDE, or Xfce.
http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-0.2.html

(I don't know what it looks like under Xfce)

Anonymous convenient menus are better than software
that wastes _my pixels_ on "branding", but they mean
you have to learn the "xlsclients" command to find
out what the program is.

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Don Marti                    
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