On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Gergely Buday <gbuday@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have F12 running on my personal laptop (Dell D630) and my work desktop.
I think that NM is appropriate and useful on my laptop but not my desktop.
When I use my laptop at home, I connect to my home network via WiFi,
and sometimes I used a wired connection. I've used both wired and
wireless connections elsewhere. So far, NM has correctly connected in
all these situations, using DHCP.
My work desktop, however, has a wired connection with a fixed IP address.
In this case, NM is not useful. So I did (as root):
service NetworkManager off
chkconfig NetworkManager off
Then I modified /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0,
and I created /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 (for a special routeyesterday I configured my fedora 12 box. With NetworkManager I could
not make it to have network after boot. At last I removed
NetworkManager and createad an S07network link in /etc/rc5.d to
/etc/init.d/network. It worked - good old Unix wisdom. With
NetworkManager there was even the problem that after manually starting
network Firefox switched to offline mode - an annoying problem that my
users cannot manage.
What do I miss if I do not have NetworkManager? In what circumstances
do I need it _really_ ?
I have F12 running on my personal laptop (Dell D630) and my work desktop.
I think that NM is appropriate and useful on my laptop but not my desktop.
When I use my laptop at home, I connect to my home network via WiFi,
and sometimes I used a wired connection. I've used both wired and
wireless connections elsewhere. So far, NM has correctly connected in
all these situations, using DHCP.
My work desktop, however, has a wired connection with a fixed IP address.
In this case, NM is not useful. So I did (as root):
service NetworkManager off
chkconfig NetworkManager off
Then I modified /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0,
we need at work), and then
chkconfig network on
service network start
I think that I could have also use config tools in Gnome to do the same
thing, but the above worked for me.
The usefulness of NM depends on your network setup.
--
Dale Dellutri
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