Problem setting up wired networking

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:51:03AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-November/msg00863.html
> starts talking about NetworkManager about there.  A goodly amount
> of FUD is thrown around and then Dan Williams answers a lot of
> questions clearing the air.

And what that FUD will be?  This detail that NM was fixed rather
recently to handle static connections and not everybody is yet aware
of this?  NM was screwing here a big time so I am not surprised that
there is no big rush to try again.

I looked through all this thread and it follows from it that NM,
after a really long wait, slowly becomes a tool which has some
chance to be usable beyond a basic "one user - one computer - one
network connection (and maybe some wifi on the top)" situation
although clearly it is still not there; but obviously much closer
than it used to be.

OTOH Dan Williams also says there: "I tend to think there will be a
place for manual network configuration for a long time (no matter
what jeremy says :), because there are some situations that are just
too borderline to support in the short term, or are sufficiently
borderline that the maintenance cost of adding the feature outweighs
the benefit of the feature in the first place.  There's always a
tradeoff to feature addition".  So, luckily, he is not such gung ho
as Jesse. :-)

   Michal