On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 12:25 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > Hi All, > > Been running FC5/rawhide for ages and absolutely love it but I have a > couple of queries wrt to various laptop support. There is also http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list > Firstly with NetworkManager do we still need to run the network > scripts. The reason I ask with my laptop at work I have wired, and > home wireless and as a result it takes ages to time out on alternate > interfaces and increases boot time greatly. Or can I run the network > script with the 2 interfaces disabled for boot time (so just > localhost) and let NM deal with what ever interface is up. Ideally NM will get into shape so we don't need two network configuration stacks [1]. Either does something the other doesn't (NM does VPN very nicely, legacy scripts does things like interface bonding etc.) [1] : especially the way the old scripts rename networking networking interfaces coupled with how the kernel announces this back to user space is at best very broken wrt HAL/NetworkManager > Similarly what's the status of docking stations support? With my Dell > Latitude when ever I undock then redock the wired network interface > (tg3) doesn't work and it takes a reboot to fix. I think its to do > with routing of the physical output to either the local port or dock > port. Same with suspending it within the dock. I'm not sure about docking stations, sorry. > Otherwise this is a rocking release. Well done! Thanks :-) David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
