Why don't we turn on NetworkManager by default?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Fri Feb 3 18:34:17 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 13:26 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> I was surprised and confused when my wireless  card did not work on a 
> rawhide install.  I later found out that NetworkManager was not 
> running.  I would have thought that would be on by default.

Because to enable it by default means it needs to work for all of the
(at least basic) cases that we set up by default.  And then all of the
corresponding changes to installation UI so that you're not confused by
what's set up.

Jeremy




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