f8: NetworkManager + runlevel 3 problem

[Chris Jones]

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 00:52 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> > Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
> >> Ya. I meant tied to a any particular desktop environment.
> > 
> > Until that's undone, it's not going to be very useful to me. I have two 
> > desktop computers with PCI wireless cards, one's acting as a relay. I 
> > have three Linux laptops with wireless, one's acting as a  relay. Any of 
> > the others might have both interfaces active at any time, and there's no 
> > guessing which (if either) should be the gateway to the Internet.
> > 
> > None of my Linux laptops and only one of the wireless desktops boots to 
> > runlevel 5.
> 
> Then just use iwconfig and forget about NM?

Maybe he wants the additional functionality or flexibility presented by
NM (not saying this is the case, just postulating) - What I don't
understand is why it is so hard for you to acknowledge that someone
might what to try benefit from NM in a non-graphical environment.

Just telling users to suck it up and use something else instead is very
dismissive.
 
Chris