NetworkManager and a boot-time network connection in F8

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200802 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 2 04:54:52 UTC 2008


Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> writes:
> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:32 -0800, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>> Is there a way to configure NetworkManager to bring up the network at
>> boot time?  I find it remarkable that this Linux program defaults to
>> treating a network connection as a service tied to a user.  Shades of
>> the evil empire of the northwest.  I'd like my laptop to send me cron
>> mail and keep synced with ntp whether I'm logged in on the console or
>> not. 
> This is a feature designated to be added to NM.0.7, hopefully soon

Thanks.  That is good to know.

-wolfgang
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