new NetworkManager dependencies?

[Ed Greshko]

On 11/03/2012 08:54 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I have found that the only way I can ever get networking to
> function correctly on my systems is to
>
> yum erase NetworkManager
>
> with NM installed it insinuates tentacles into everything,
> doing stuff like grabbing control of USB network devices
> when I plug them in (devices I don't want it fooling with).

Are you saying that even if you

systemctl disable NetworkManager.service

it gives you problems?

I've not had problems with NetworkManger ...  But on one test system I disabled it and enabled "network" using chkconfig.  Everything works fine and no NetworkManager bits are running.



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