NetworkManager tutorials?

[Dan]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 20 April 2006 08:47, Aaron Konstam wrote:
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>> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 00:42 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
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>>> Greetings;
>>>
>>> Subject...Is there such a thing?  I've browsed the limited docs
>>> installed on FC5, without finding anything that tells me how to
>>> configure it.  All I know is that if I start those 2 daemons, I have
>>> to manually restart the network to restore service, and
>>> that /etc/NetworkManager is an empty directory.
>>>
>>> --
>>>       
>> Could you explain what you mean by restarting the network since that
>> may not be correct.
>>     
>
> As in 'service network restart'
>
> Starting the NM daemon apparently takes me offline.
>
>   
The "network" and "NetworkManager" services do the same task, as I've 
found when I had both of them started I would sometimes connect to wired 
with one and wireless with the other :P So I just keep network off now 
on my laptop.
About not using GNOME...the NetworkManager applet right now is 
gnome-specific, so you might want to look into the efforts being made 
toward a KDE applet.
-Dan
> I note at the bottom of the redhat link that it says broadcom stuff 
> doesn't work, presumably because its ndiswrappered.
>
> I know that ndiswrapper generated some pretty vociferous condemnations 
> from the GPL defenders, but it there's no other way to do it, what are 
> we the users to do. We're hardly in a position to demand GPL chipsets 
> in the lappy's we buy, particularly when they are so intertwined in FCC 
> regulations that are specifically designed to keep us from hacking 
> these 'software radios' to do illegal things. IMO thats unforch, but 
> its a fact of life and we should learn to deal with it after we realize 
> all the mewling in the world isn't going to change the regulatory 
> agencies stance on this even if broadcom were of a mind to gpl their 
> drivers.
>
> Is there any hope that this will be addressed and NM made to work with 
> an ndiswrappered chipset eventually?
>
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>> == Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail:
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