Is the Network Manager installed by default when Fedora 14 is installed by a Live CD I installed using a Live CD?

Varuna Seneviratna varunaseneviratna at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 17:31:11 UTC 2011


On 19 April 2011 22:28, Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:
> On 04/19/2011 09:42 AM, Varuna Seneviratna wrote:
>>
>> On 19 April 2011 22:05, Rick Stevens<ricks at nerd.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 04/19/2011 09:22 AM, Varuna Seneviratna wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is the Network Manager installed by default when Fedora 14 is
>>>> installed by a Live CD
>>>> I installed using a Live CD.
>>>> According to the Faq at
>>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/NetworkManager under the Question
>>>> Command Line Way it is said to give the command "su -c '/sbin/service
>>>> NetworkManager start " to start the service But When given the command
>>>> at the terminal no message of any sort appears and even not the prompt
>>>> appears what appears is as below
>>>>
>>>> Quote:
>>>> su -c '/sbin/service NetworkManager start
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> /Quote
>>>>
>>>> After The command a less than symbol appears and it stays that way
>>>> without nothing changing.
>>>> How to know whether the Network Manager is Installed, whether is it
>>>> working?
>>>
>>> You need a closing quote:
>>>
>>> Â  Â  Â  Â su -c '/sbin/service NetworkManager start'
>>>
>>> The ">" prompt is the shell asking you to complete the quoted string,
>>> so you could have put a single quote after it and hit ENTER:
>>>
>>> Â  Â  Â  Â>  '
>>>
>>> That would have closed the quoted string and you're off to the races.
>
>> Rich
>>       Thanks and it started working But what are the other command
>> That can be made use of when using Network Manager
>> Below is what has appeared in my terminal now
>>
>>                Setting network parameters...
>>    [  OK  ]
>>                Starting NetworkManager daemon:
>>
>>
>> Where can I find more information about Network Manager to used in the
>> Command Line way
>
> NetworkManager is not very well documented.  It's supposed to "just
> work" and when it doesn't, it's not easy to see why.  I contacted the
> authors of it several times and offered to write documentation, but
> never got a response from them.
>
> By default, it should start and handle your network connections.  You
> can ensure it starts by entering this command as the root user:
>
>        chkconfig --level 2345 NetworkManager on
           Is the level 345 or 2345.According the FAQ it is 345?
> This should ensure it starts up the next time you boot up.
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