On Tuesday 11 November 2008 17:00:50 Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 08:43 +0000, Tony Molloy wrote: > > For a wired connection run the network service and disable the > > NetworkManager > > service. > > This is just bad advice. Unless you need ipv6, or need advanced > networking features such as bridges, or are setting up a headless system > with static networking, NetworkManager is fine for both wireless and > wired. NetworkManager can have system wide connections configured that > will be brought up at boot time, both dhcp or static. > Don't know about you but I have never had NetworkManager bring up wired connections with static IP addresses correctly on boot. I works fine for wireless dhcp addresses. Regards, Tony > For the OPs laptop case, NM is even better as you can go from one > location where you're using wireless to another location, plug in a wire > and NetworkManager will automatically attempt to get an address from > that wire and allow you to use the wired network. > > There are very few reasons and less each release to revert to the > 'network' service. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
