<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Gergely Buday <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gbuday@gmail.com">gbuday@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
yesterday I configured my fedora 12 box. With NetworkManager I could<br>
not make it to have network after boot. At last I removed<br>
NetworkManager and createad an S07network link in /etc/rc5.d to<br>
/etc/init.d/network. It worked - good old Unix wisdom. With<br>
NetworkManager there was even the problem that after manually starting<br>
network Firefox switched to offline mode - an annoying problem that my<br>
users cannot manage.<br>
<br>
What do I miss if I do not have NetworkManager? In what circumstances<br>
do I need it _really_ ?<br></blockquote><div><br>I have F12 running on my personal laptop (Dell D630) and my work desktop.<br>I think that NM is appropriate and useful on my laptop but not my desktop.<br><br>When I use my laptop at home, I connect to my home network via WiFi,<br>
and sometimes I used a wired connection. I've used both wired and<br>wireless connections elsewhere. So far, NM has correctly connected in<br>all these situations, using DHCP.<br><br>My work desktop, however, has a wired connection with a fixed IP address.<br>
In this case, NM is not useful. So I did (as root):<br><br> service NetworkManager off<br> chkconfig NetworkManager off<br><br>Then I modified /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0,<br></div></div>
and I created /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 (for a special route<br>we need at work), and then<br><br> chkconfig network on<br> service network start<br><br>I think that I could have also use config tools in Gnome to do the same<br>
thing, but the above worked for me.<br><br>The usefulness of NM depends on your network setup.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dale Dellutri<br>