Comment 53 for bug 259214

I can't believe this buggy nm thing is still buggy and included with Ubuntu. Is this a joke or what?
I had to fiddle for 30 minutes in order to have it asking me for credentials and finally saving the configuration: how can one be sure the configuration now will last?
What's the need for nm to have its own configuration files instead of relying on the traditional way of configuring networking on linux? Why is that?