Can we speed up Network Manager?

[luther]

In answer to you question, I suggest the following:

As root call up leafpad and edit /etc/rc.local
by adding the following line just before the "exit 0" line:

iwconfig (wifi's device name) rate 54M key (router key code) essid "(router essid name)"

If that doesn't improve things, then this might be one more reason
to benefit from upgrading to 7.2.

utu,

The line needed to be rooted for the LED to fire, but wasn't able to connect. Therefore, resorted to 'udhcpc' that was installed from synaptic:

knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid mynetwork
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 key 6789abcdef
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ sudo udhcpc -b -i wlan0 -x hostname:Microknoppix -p /var/run/udhcpc.wlan0.pid
udhcpc (v1.20.1) started
Sending discover...
Sending discover...
Sending select for 192.168.0.14...
Lease of 192.168.0.14 obtained, lease time 86400
/etc/udhcpc/default.script: Resetting default routes
SIOCDELRT: No such process
/etc/udhcpc/default.script: Adding DNS 8.8.4.4
/etc/udhcpc/default.script: Adding DNS 8.8.8.8
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$

'udhcpc' freezes knoppix 7.0.3 on my older hardware, giving credence to this post to your 'old' thread.
'udhcpc' has a '-syslog' switch, but is useless when it causes knoppix to freeze!
luther

PS. 7.0.3 has been an excellent PC repair tool and hate to part w/it!
* posted w/udhcpc & w/nonetworkmanager cheatcode