On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:59 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 12:14 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
Why does yum erase wireless-tools want to: Removing for dependencies: anaconda firstboot rhpl system-config-(boot,date,date-docs,firewall, firewall-tui,keyboard,kickstart,language,lvm, network,network-tui,rootpassword,users,users-docs)
This is a wired desktop, that has absolutely no need for wireless or indeed wpa-supplicant which want to remove: NetworkManager NetworkManager-gnome anaconda system-config-kickstart
I know --nodeps could be used, or indeed use "network service" but currently have no problems with NM
Bu how?, are they tied into so much.
Frank
I'm not sure about most of these, but I'd like to note that wpa-supplicant is not a wireless-only tool (that one of your sentences seem to imply). I use it at dorm to authenticate to wired network (as well as at home to authenticate to home wifi network). And because some NM features clearly require its presence, it would be broken if it did not require it.
Which is exactly why NM requires the supplicant, because without it, you can't connect to 802.1x-protected *wired* networks like yours, and you can't just plug in a wifi adapter and have it work out of the box.
Dan