NetworkManager Gets A New Text Interface

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NetworkManager Gets A New Text Interface

While NetworkManager already has great integration with the GNOME and KDE desktops and there are command-line interfaces to this open-source network management program, there's now a new curses-based interface...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTU0Mjg

[Rexilion]

That's quite a lot of code...

[Laser]

Man, finally. Setting up systems without a classical DE and NetworkManager (my XBMC HTPC is an example) has always been a PITA, and the available command line tools didn't always work perfectly.

[lysbleu]

It can only be better than the gnome interface. I have a dream, that one day, I will be able to refresh the wifi networks as I want, by a button or by F5.

[leech]

Man, finally. Setting up systems without a classical DE and NetworkManager (my XBMC HTPC is an example) has always been a PITA, and the available command line tools didn't always work perfectly.

Oddly enough, I noticed that xbmc has it's own network manager interface.

As a side note... sure add a command line interface, but don't make it so that you can easily create a bridge for virtualization! That's one thing that still (at least the last time I needed to do it) was a royal pain!

[Ericg]

Man, finally. Setting up systems without a classical DE and NetworkManager (my XBMC HTPC is an example) has always been a PITA, and the available command line tools didn't always work perfectly.

Really? I actually had a few issues with the Fedora 19 and 20's betas where Plasma-nm nor the traditional KDE applet wouldn't work properly but nmcli worked flawlessly. It takes a little while to get nmcli's syntax right but once you do its actually pretty literal and understandable.

[sireangelus]

It can only be better than the gnome interface. I have a dream, that one day, I will be able to refresh the wifi networks as I want, by a button or by F5.

iwlist scan sadly requires root

[MaxToTheMax]

This has been a long time coming.

[leech]

Seems to me every time I'd click on the network manager it would refresh the wifi connections. Could be wrong about that.

[Laser]

Oddly enough, I noticed that xbmc has it's own network manager interface.

It does, but when I checked, it seemed to work for WiFi only?! Perhaps it was my fault. I remember there being a plugin that wasn't suited for my use case.