usability: unplugged ethernet cable on an office desktop

[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?

Bill