NM: the usual rant

[Kevin Kofler]

suvayu ali wrote:
> To add to the discussion, NM doesn't connect to the network without a
> gui. That seems a rather shortsighted design. I found this the hard
> way today when my gui got screwed after an update and some ill
> considered tinkering.

This is only true if you don't have a systemwide configuration set up. The
current NetworkManager can also use configuration from
system-config-network, just as the old network service does.

        Kevin Kofler