On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:14:58 -0700 "Rick Stevens" <
ricks@nerd.com> wrote:
>Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Mea culpa.
>>
>> Having attacked NM (NetworkManager) unmercifully in the past,
>> I now find myself completely at his (her?) mercy,
>> as he/she is the only way of connecting one of my current laptop
>> (with WiFi) to the real world.
>>
>> For some reason, system-config-network has been getting steadily worse
>> over the last few months, and now does not work at all.
>> (At its best it worked about 65% of the time.)
>>
>> Is anyone successfully using the network service + system-config-network
>> with Fedora-8 (updated)?
>>
>> To be more precise, has anyone found themselves NOT connected with WiFi,
>> and found the problem solved by running system-config-network?
>
>Yes. Easily 95% of my systems are hard-wired and use system-config-
>network (well, make that "service network start"). They're all using
>fixed IPs, though.
>
>I've only used NM/NMD on very rare occasions. Even my laptop on wifi
>with WPA nodes and DHCP uses the regular stuff. I did have to sort out
>wpa_supplicant and dhclient things, but that wasn't hard to do.
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