NetworkManager tutorials?

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Apr 20 20:50:40 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 13:20 -0400, Dan wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 April 2006 08:47, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >   
> >> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 00:42 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Greetings;
> >>>
> >>> Subject...Is there such a thing?  I've browsed the limited docs
> >>> installed on FC5, without finding anything that tells me how to
> >>> configure it.  All I know is that if I start those 2 daemons, I have
> >>> to manually restart the network to restore service, and
> >>> that /etc/NetworkManager is an empty directory.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>       
> >> Could you explain what you mean by restarting the network since that
> >> may not be correct.
> >>     
> >
> > As in 'service network restart'
> >
> > Starting the NM daemon apparently takes me offline.
> >
> >   
> The "network" and "NetworkManager" services do the same task, as I've 
> found when I had both of them started I would sometimes connect to wired 
> with one and wireless with the other :P So I just keep network off now 
> on my laptop.
> About not using GNOME...the NetworkManager applet right now is 
> gnome-specific, so you might want to look into the efforts being made 
> toward a KDE applet.
> -Dan
> >
I guess the point is network and NetworkManager should probably not be
both running at the same time. And it is network that should be not
running at this point.
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