On 19 April 2011 22:28, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/19/2011 09:42 AM, Varuna Seneviratna wrote: >> >> On 19 April 2011 22:05, Rick Stevens<ricks@xxxxxxxx> Âwrote: >>> >>> On 04/19/2011 09:22 AM, Varuna Seneviratna wrote: >>>> >>>> Is the Network Manager installed by default when Fedora 14 is >>>> installed by a Live CD >>>> I installed using a Live CD. >>>> According to the Faq at >>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/NetworkManager under the Question >>>> Command Line Way it is said to give the command "su -c '/sbin/service >>>> NetworkManager start " to start the service But When given the command >>>> at the terminal no message of any sort appears and even not the prompt >>>> appears what appears is as below >>>> >>>> Quote: >>>> su -c '/sbin/service NetworkManager start >>>>> >>>>> >>>> /Quote >>>> >>>> After The command a less than symbol appears and it stays that way >>>> without nothing changing. >>>> How to know whether the Network Manager is Installed, whether is it >>>> working? >>> >>> You need a closing quote: >>> >>> à Âà Âà Âà su -c '/sbin/service NetworkManager start' >>> >>> The ">" prompt is the shell asking you to complete the quoted string, >>> so you could have put a single quote after it and hit ENTER: >>> >>> à Âà Âà ÂÃ> Â' >>> >>> That would have closed the quoted string and you're off to the races. > >> Rich >>    Thanks and it started working But what are the other command >> That can be made use of when using Network Manager >> Below is what has appeared in my terminal now >> >>        ÂSetting network parameters... >>  Â[ ÂOK Â] >>        ÂStarting NetworkManager daemon: >> >> >> Where can I find more information about Network Manager to used in the >> Command Line way > > NetworkManager is not very well documented. ÂIt's supposed to "just > work" and when it doesn't, it's not easy to see why. ÂI contacted the > authors of it several times and offered to write documentation, but > never got a response from them. > > By default, it should start and handle your network connections. ÂYou > can ensure it starts by entering this command as the root user: > >    Âchkconfig --level 2345 NetworkManager on Is the level 345 or 2345.According the FAQ it is 345? > This should ensure it starts up the next time you boot up. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting     Âricks@xxxxxxxx - > - AIM/Skype: therps2    ÂICQ: 22643734      ÂYahoo: origrps2 - > -                                  Â- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- 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