NetworkManager, is it important?

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Gergely Buday <gbuday at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> yesterday I configured my fedora 12 box. With NetworkManager I could
> not make it to have network after boot. At last I removed
> NetworkManager and createad an S07network link in /etc/rc5.d to
> /etc/init.d/network. It worked - good old Unix wisdom. With
> NetworkManager there was even the problem that after manually starting
> network Firefox switched to offline mode - an annoying problem that my
> users cannot manage.
>
> What do I miss if I do not have NetworkManager? In what circumstances
> do I need it _really_ ?

That may work but you kind of did things the hard way. A more
appropriate method would have been (as root):

service NetworkManager stop
chkconfig NetworkManager off
chkconfig network on
service network start

Richard