On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Russell Strong <russell(a)strong.id.au> wrote:
Hi,
I've just installed Fedora 9 on my laptop, and unfortunately a few things
are getting worse in Fedora.
Network management has always been awkward on Fedora and with Fedora 9 it's
getting much worse.
1. I have always edited the config files directly to get things working.
And still have to ( it's just a straight forward wireless connection ).
2. NetworkManager is now the default on install, BUT...
2.1 NetworkManager does not give you a wireless connection when no user is
logged in.
2.1.1 How am I going to run any network service, NTP, NFS, httpd,
etc..... without a network?
2.1.2 How am I going to remotely administer my machines?
2.2 NetworkManager does not give you the ability to configure system wide
networking services or policy.
2.3 NetworkManager does not have any decent documentation.
3. Try using WPA and DHCP at the same time. It's never worked in this or
any previous Fedora. Yes, NM will do it, but that's no good because of the
previously stated problems. the network service won't do it because it
tries to run DHCP immediately after bringing up the interfaces...It SHOULD
wait until wpa_supplicant has run and the interface is available for traffic
before kicking off DHCP...
GDM was functional, well behaved and stable in Fedora 8. I used it to log
into other F8 machines locked away in difficult to get at racks. Fedora 9
has effectively removed that ability by shipping a GDM with gdmsetup. How
many users depend on that functionality? I did, and won't be able to
upgrade to F9 for any other machines.
A suggestion...
Use the fedora website/wiki to collect information about use cases. Find
out what people depend on. Use that to provide a guarantee that
functionality and usefulness won't go backwards. If it was ever setup, I'd
tell you everything I do with my machines.
Russell
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Try checking out upstream GDM bug:
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Valent.
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