system-config-network "activate", "deactivate" button greyed out

[daniel shi]

thanks for your explanation.  now i unchecked the "controlled by
networkmanager", i can activate or deactivate the interface.


On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 06 August 2009 01:52:38 daniel shi wrote:
> > what i do now is edit the interface in
> > system-config-network, save the changes, then activate the interface in
> > network manager. this works, but somehow is a little inconvenient.
>
> If you use Network Manager, this is precisely how it is meant to work, as
> has
> been explained several times on the list (you might want to search the
> archives).
>
> In short, the system-config-network utility is used for configuring network
> devices. Activating them is done from the application that controls their
> usage --- if the device is controlled by Network Manager (a checkbox in the
> settings), then only Network Manager can and should activate it. However,
> if
> you use network service instead of Network Manager, the checkbox should be
> off
> in the settings, and activation should be done via "service network start"
> in
> the command line, or automatically on boot.
>
> The "activate" and "deactivate" buttons from s-c-n should also work in the
> latter case, but I never liked them, they always felt somehow too clumsy
> for
> my taste.
>
> The "edit" button in NM is greyed out because the configuration is (and
> should
> be) done from s-c-n, not NM itself. However, I agree that this "edit"
> button
> could be made to open s-c-n, which would be an intuitive and good solution.
> I
> don't know why this has not been configured like that already.
>
> HTH, :-)
> Marko
>
>
>
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Daniel Shi
from CS.SCU
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