NM bug? Ad-hoc network

[Chris Mohler]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Chris Jones<jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> You should be careful to not blame NM for problems that are actually
> caused by poor wireless card drivers. In my experience most problems
> people blame on NM are actually not NM's fault but elsewhere.
>
>  From memory the NM devs are (rightly in my view) quite strict on not
> polluting their code with workarounds and nasty hacks for poorly
> behaving drivers. Their view is fix the problems at source.
>
> I'm not necessarily saying this is what is happening here, just you
> should probably do some investigating first to try and find out where
> the real problem is, before posting bug reports.

Good advice.  I did try two separate interfaces (Intel built-in and ZD
external) first, but I should dig around some more before pinning it
on NM.

Anyone on the list been able to create an ad-hoc wifi network through
the NM applet (without installing dnsmasq)?

Chris