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Wicd is a way better replacement for the NetworkMgr. Actually its the first thing I do whenever I get my hands on a Ubuntu or a ubuntu spinoff.
Yep, regardless of the distribution the first job is dump networkmanager. I have used a number of tools in it's stead, including wicd. Aside from Mandriva's draktools, wicd is the most consistent, stable and easy to use among the alternatives.
It's a tremendous shame that one of the 1st things that a new Linux Desktop user meets in trying to set up a new distro is ... (Jaws music) ... Network Manager. It is reliable in the utterly bad way - it has never failed to fail for me - the reason I always have to install on a wire, toss NM & install Netgo. And from many grudging treks across the lists, this is far from a one-off. Why not a default of netgo? Bewildering.
Mandriva had two of the best tools in the business in their draktools collection; their print system and networking control were bar far the best available in Linux, anywhere.
They abandoned printerdrake first, with the 2010 distribution. Printing has been totally unreliable with Mandriva since. I have to poke at the printers on the server, restart them, unplug and replug the USB cable and sacrifice a dove or two before they are available to network clients. They last a half day, then magically disappear again.
With 2011 they have totally abandoned their drakx-net tools, and same deal: wireless networking has gone from the easiest, most compatible out of the box simple process (EXACTLY what Linux needs to win converts) to almost impossible.
On one machine I was able to remove networkmanager and get the draktools working. On different hardware, networkmanager appears to be necessary.
I haven't checked yet to see if the fork, Mageia, uses networlmanager as default or not. If not, that might be my go-to should Mandriva close it's doors:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/mandriva-in-danger-of-closing-its-doors/3335?tag=mantle_skin;content
They abandoned printerdrake first, with the 2010 distribution. Printing has been totally unreliable with Mandriva since. I have to poke at the printers on the server, restart them, unplug and replug the USB cable and sacrifice a dove or two before they are available to network clients. They last a half day, then magically disappear again.
With 2011 they have totally abandoned their drakx-net tools, and same deal: wireless networking has gone from the easiest, most compatible out of the box simple process (EXACTLY what Linux needs to win converts) to almost impossible.
On one machine I was able to remove networkmanager and get the draktools working. On different hardware, networkmanager appears to be necessary.
I haven't checked yet to see if the fork, Mageia, uses networlmanager as default or not. If not, that might be my go-to should Mandriva close it's doors:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/mandriva-in-danger-of-closing-its-doors/3335?tag=mantle_skin;content
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