Network Manager in F11 Preview
Dan Williams
dcbw at redhat.com
Wed Apr 29 16:06:01 UTC 2009
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 11:52 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 11:12 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote:
> > When I installed F11 preview. Network manager configured my
> eth0 to
> > never be activiated automatically. Since this was the only
> NIC on the
> > system the result was no network. Easily fixable but not
> user
> > friendly. I use KDE so I am not sure if this goes against
> network
> > manager or knetworkmanager. Any thoughts?
>
>
> People can't have it both ways. Anaconda will write ONBOOT=no
> if you
> are not installing over the network, and thus your interface
> will not be
> "autoconnect". If you do install over a network, then
> anaconda will
> write ONBOOT=yes, and you will get autoconnect. That's the
> root cause
> of your problem. Not sure how to fix it, because there are
> legitimate
> reasons for not making all interfaces autoconnect when you
> don't do a
> network install. Part of that is security; don't bring a
> network up
> until you really need it, since connecting to a network makes
> a machine
> less secure.
>
> Not sure how to fix this, it's more of a policy decision at
> install-time
> than anything technical.
>
> Dan
>
>
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> I guess the question here is what if I was a "Joe SixPack" user who
> didn't know immediately to look in the settings what would I have
> done. Without network connectivity it is a little difficult to
> research the answer.
At least you can click on the ethernet connection in the applet menu if
you can associate the "two computers with a red X" icon with networking.
That's two clicks and doesn't require jumping into the connection editor
to just get online.
Dan
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