Problem setting up wired networking

[Steve Thompson]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Per Bothner wrote:

> Steve Thompson wrote:
>> No, the pre-network manager world was not better for those systems. So for 
>> those systems it is perhaps an advance. But that doesn't justify breaking 
>> it for the other 90+% (or, in my case, 100%). 
>
> That seems dubious.

Hardly.

> You think NetworkManager "broke" things (or at least made network 
> configuration more difficult) for 90+% of systems?

Yes. As I said, in my case, NM broke 100% of the machines that I tried it 
on.

> Perhaps if you count each pc in a 1000-pc server farm separately, but
> even in those cases I'm surprised NetworkManager would "break" things.

If I have to log in to every single frigging box and fix the configuration 
after I install, then I definitely count every one.

> I'm very happy with NetworkManager.

I'm not.

> It has made networking much easier for me,

Good.

> and I suspect the vast majority of Fedora users (not to mention Ubuntu 
> and other distros).

That seems dubious.

Steve