Network Manager, Firefox and more on FC10

[Mark Haney]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:11:21 -0900
>>>> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Do you mean staticly configured networking?
>>>> Either static or DHCP. In all cases I needed the
>>>> dadgum network to be up without logging in first.
>>>
>>> And choosing 'enable on boot' in system-config-network doesn't do that?
>>>
>> No.  It does not.  Period.  Even setting that option doesn't do it.
>> Even though the interface says it is not 'managed by NM'.
> 
> I assure you it does. I have NetworkManager eabled. I never have to
> log into KDE to have my network working, and I would know, as I have
> mythbackend running on my desktop, and mysql-server on another
> machine, so if the network isn't working without logging in, I would
> be screwed.
> 

Okay, let me rephrase.  It does not simply by checking that box.
Network has to be running too, and not NM.

Regardless, I find the fact that I HAVE to do that on my static systems
(servers, et al.) a completely unnecessary task.  I don't see why it's
that hard to setup a new option in the setup that allows you to
configure that during installation/upgrade.

I can't understand why this isn't an option now.

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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
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