On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 07:09:48PM +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 02:03 -0400, Dave Feustel wrote: > > I just got the openSUSE 11 Bible and looked immediately for info on > > NetworkManager, which I found on page 440. There is stated that NM is > > primarily for wireless, while traditional network configuration should > > be used for wired networks. Since I have a wired system, NM is > > probably not right for me. > > You don't have to. If your network is working fine, using it, then you > may as well keep on using it. It's key feature isn't really just > wireless, but in handling using different networks (allegedly) > painlessly. The network initialization stopped working on its own some time ago. I have to start it manually now and both Firefox and Liferea come up in off-line mode. My network is and will remain wireless, so I want to go back to no NetworkManager. > e.g. Now you plug into your home LAN, later you plug into someone else's > LAN, and you might use wireless, later on. With all that you have to do > is just plug in, or get close to the wireless, and not have to select or > reconfigure anything to use the different network. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
