Network service - is it still available?

[Timothy Murphy]

Is the network service still available in Fedora-16
as an alternative to NM (NetworkManager)?
Or has it just become an interface to NM?

Yesterday, NM went into some kind of fit on my Fedora/KDE laptop,
with a small window entitled "Secret" appearing on my desktop,
with a space to write a password, which unfortunately did not accept input.
On clicking the Close button I was told that 
my WiFi connection was not available.

I tried to "sudo service network restart" but the same window came up.

Also, the CLI application system-config-network
seems to have become quite useless,
starting with the incomprehensible choice between Device configuration
and DNS configuration.
On choosing the first I am asked to Select a Device,
with the choice p2p1, which I take to be ethernet, or <New Device>.

After 2 re-boots NM started properly;
but it made me wonder if there was an alternative
to keep on the system in case NM didn't work.
I used to use the network service for this,
but as I said this doesn't appear to be available any more,
at least in the way it used to be.



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Timothy Murphy  
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