Re: F13 install on lappy, comments

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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?
>


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