Re: howto remove modem-manager ?

[John Wendel <jwendel10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/20/2012 10:58 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

Hi

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak  wrote:

It is possible to disable modem-manager (but not remove it, if you need NM). Delete this file:

/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.ModemManager.service

Never do that.  It won't serve the purpose since any update will pull it right back in.  If you can't remove a package because of dependency but want to be sure to keep it disabled, use systemctl mask <servicename.service> instead and in this case, it really shouldn't be necessary to do that since it only gets started by NetworkManager if you try to establish a new connection using any modem, in-built or otherwise.  It is also a very small dependency.

Rahul

It doesn't work the way you described on my F17 box, that doesn't have a modem or wireless connection. Network-manager always loads modem-manager which loads the drivers for every modem and wireless device that it knows about (according to the log file). I know it's small, but I'm on a 1 GB box, and besides, it just bugs me. BTW, systemctl doesn't work with modem-manager, so masking it isn't possible.

I finally dumped network-manager and configured the network by hand. Much better. Oh well, looking forward to F18 and different triggers for my OCD.

Thanks,

John

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