On Sunday 30 May 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Imagine my surprise when I found the capability of setting local >> addresses etc right in NM for a change, and it worked! I didn't have to >> go hacking about to make the new install work with my local network >> gateways etc. > >Not important, but I didn't understand this posting. >I haven't noticed any great change in NM in Fedora-13. >But how exactly do you "set local addresses" in NM? >I assume NM looks in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-? >Is that wrong? Previouisly I had to do that hacking by hand, disable NM and start network. >I notice now that if I right-click on what I take to be the NM icon >in my panel, and choose Manage Connections, >I get a window with title "Configure - KDE Control Module", >which has no connections entered under Wired or Wireless. >As I recall, all the past and present connections used to be listed? > >I assume this window is the responsibility of knetworkmanager? >I have never understood the point of this program, >which seems to add nothing to NM? > -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "If you want to know what happens to you when you die, go look at some dead stuff." -- Dave Enyeart -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
