On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 01:51 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 11:30 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> [...]
> > also have the network service turned off.
>
> network is enabled to start at boot (I'm at home using my wireless
> connection) and here is the status:
>
> Configured devices:
> lo eth0 wlan0
> Currently active devices:
> lo wlan0
>
>
> I was afraid to turn this off for fear of screwing up ALL network
> connections. So you are saying that this should NOT be used with
> NetworkManager?
You can start the service or not with NM, but if you start the service,
make sure that no interfaces other than lo are configured to start at
boot.
> ...
> I thought the whole idea of NetworkManager was to make connecting to
> networks transparent but if it doesn't work with wired connections with
> fixed IP's it cannot be that usable for many people. It appears to be a
> major design flaw. (I'm not saying I won't continue to use it - it does
> make connecting to wireless networks easier and it's the only way I've
> found to connect to networks using WPA.)
That feature is being written and is due shortly.
>
> Rick B.
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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