WPA without NetworkManager

[Les Mikesell]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 
>>>>> NetworkManager is not an option and has no place on my machines.
>>>> Right-click -> "Edit connections", pick your preferred setting, click 
>>>> on 'System setting'.
>>> Right-click on what?  I run fvwm.  How are non-DE users supposed to  
>>> interact with NM?
>> He was asking how to make NM work after logging out, which does sort
>> of presume he's already using it. If you are seriously asking about how
>> to configure NM when you aren't actually using it, well...
>>
>>>> (Note: Not valid for WPA, etc. That doesn't work outside of NM anyway...)
>>> Yes, yes it does.  And it should.
>> Not in the context of init.d/network, which is what I meant. (Well, not
>> outside of gross hacks.)
> 
> Yes, it works in that context. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless
> needs a small patch which I posted in bugzilla and which has been ignored
> for years. The patch isn't actually mine, it was posted on one of fedora lists.
> I can't find that bugzilla report right now so I'm attaching the patch here
> instead.

I thought I saw having network manager run before login and the ability 
to boot from iscsi mentioned in the release notes for the beta RHEL 5.3 
updates.  Isn't fedora supposed to be ahead of RHEL in features?

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