Is NetworkManager really as broken as it seems?

[Antonio]

2007/10/17, Fulko Hew <fulko.hew at gmail.com>:
>
> I'll try asking one more time before I give up on F8...
>
>  Is NetworkManager/KNetworkManager really as broken as it seems?
>
>  On my (laptop) system, as soon as I start
> NetworkManager/NetworkManagerDispatcher it:
>
>  a) doesn't know about any wireless device,
> b) forgets about and DISABLES the existing wired connection
>
> So my only recourse is to kill of *NetworkManager* and do an 'ifup eth0'.
>
> Seems to me that make it _very_ broken.
>  Am I the _only_ one experiencing these catastrophic failures?
>
> There are over 200 Bugzilla entries against this software, and given
> that, I'd expect that there would be new versions of their RPMs
>  coming out each day to slowly try to resolve these things.  Or is there
>  some other strategic activity/non-activity going on behind the scenes?
>
>
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In my experience, Network Manager works fine between wired and
wireless nets but:
it doesn't connect to a WPA wireless network if I am getting DHCP from
a DHCP server

If I fix the IP number both on wired interface and wireless interface,
it seems to work.



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Antonio Montagnani
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