usability: unplugged ethernet cable on an office desktop

[David Nielsen]

tir, 15 08 2006 kl. 01:22 -0400, skrev Bill Nottingham:
> David Nielsen (david at lovesunix.net) said: 
> > > Use NetworkManager. (Yes, I'm a broken record here.)
> > 
> > Pretty much Bill, so pray tell us when exactly will NM be ready for
> > default deployment in Fedora like say OpenSuSE/SLED does. Untill that
> > glorious day these concerns are perfectly valid and a perfect indicator
> > as to just how much we need a fully functional NM implementation
> > suitable for the core Fedora use cases.
> 
> If you want to deploy a desktop in such a configuration how does:
> 
> chkconfig --level 345 network off
> chckonfig --level 345 NetworkManager on
> 
> not work for you?

My point was that we don't yet do this by default which means the
concerns still apply to any default case for Fedora.

And I was wondering when we might see NetworkMAnager be deployed as the
standard solution for networking, I'm hoping for FC7.

- David