On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 22:28 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: > 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 :) There's support for it, yes, but not via the UI (yet). If the correct bits get populated in GConf, then it should work. I can send details on how to do that if you'd like. Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
