On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Gergely Buday <gbu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> yesterday I configured my fedora 12 box. With NetworkManager I could > not make it to have network after boot. At last I removed > NetworkManager and createad an S07network link in /etc/rc5.d to > /etc/init.d/network. It worked - good old Unix wisdom. With > NetworkManager there was even the problem that after manually starting > network Firefox switched to offline mode - an annoying problem that my > users cannot manage. > > What do I miss if I do not have NetworkManager? In what circumstances > do I need it _really_ ? > I have F12 running on my personal laptop (Dell D630) and my work desktop. I think that NM is appropriate and useful on my laptop but not my desktop. When I use my laptop at home, I connect to my home network via WiFi, and sometimes I used a wired connection. I've used both wired and wireless connections elsewhere. So far, NM has correctly connected in all these situations, using DHCP. My work desktop, however, has a wired connection with a fixed IP address. In this case, NM is not useful. So I did (as root): service NetworkManager off chkconfig NetworkManager off Then I modified /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, and I created /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 (for a special route we need at work), and then chkconfig network on service network start I think that I could have also use config tools in Gnome to do the same thing, but the above worked for me. The usefulness of NM depends on your network setup. -- Dale Dellutri
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