On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 15:09 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > > > > > correct… seems to be started by NM / dbus according to the bootchart… > > > > > > > > > > This *should* be in the background and not actually be delaying the boot. > > > > The point is: Why is it started anyway? I have *no* wireless! No need to > > eat disk/CPU resources (which *is* delaying the boot). > > Authentication isn't just for wireless anymore... Many network > switches can be configured to require 802.1x authentication from a > system before allowing access to the network. I'll be looking into > enabling 802.1x authentication here at work this summer. This is a > case of having things "just work" - having the world's fastest boot > time shouldn't be the ultimate goal here. > > Jeff > Speaking of which... Is there a way to configure NetworkManager to authenticate to 802.1x wired network? Not that I mind running ifconfig, xsupplicant, dhclient by hand but nm could simplify a life a lot :) Martin
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