On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 11:40 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > On 04/21/10 03:55, Simon Geard wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 14:57 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > >> As I mentioned elsewhere, I had an issue building it, but I now have > >> version 0.8 of it and the applet installed. > >> > >> To work, you need to add a basic configuration file: > >> > >> > >> /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf > > > > The file's not actually required - NM will run just fine without it, > > Do you have version 0.8 installed? Previous versions didn't seem to > need it, but I couldn't get them to work. :-| But, perhaps it isn't > always needed, although the documentation at GNOME Live states that it is.
Yes, using 0.8, but I *do* have a config file now - added it at some point to make the warning go away. You could be right though, 0.8 might not start without it... > > though it's probably necessary in order to define system connections > > (i.e ones not tied to a logged-in user). > > It is necessary to define which plugin(s) you are using. And, I have > previously had issues with NetworkManager changing my hostname. The latter isn't a problem under recent versions. You're right, it used to reset to 'localhost', but at some point (one of the pre-0.8 snapshots, maybe) they've changed that logic. You only need to specify a plugin to set up system connections (or to set the hostname if not using LFS to do it). If you just use NM to connect to wireless while logged in, it'll work quite happily without any configuration... That said, my next LFS build will probably patch out all the network support scripts, and rely on NM to do everything... no point in having *two* things handling network config... Simon. Simon
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