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The UI is planned for GNOME 3.6. +</I>>>><i> However, seems that loads of Mageia users have issues with +</I>>>><i> NetworkManager, so not sure what to do. Perhaps safer to wait a year and +</I>>>><i> hope that other distributions solve the bugs? +</I>>><i> Approximatively 50% of those problems come from the coexistence with +</I>>><i> drakxtools and sysinit, conflicting for the control of the +</I>>><i> interface, rather than actual problems in NM code. Waiting for them +</I>>><i> to magically disapear won't help much... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Ah ok, but shouldn't that all be fixed now that the patch is back to +</I>><i> make NetworkManager properly ignore stuff that it should ignore? +</I>><i> +</I> +I tink it is _lot_ easier even for drakxtools to write a file into +/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections that to mess with ifcfg-* files. + +And NM is the only sane way to have, in my case, 4 or 5 WiFi configurations +for the same interface and let it pick the right one depending on my +location. It is just marvelous, and without any ifcfg-* file rewriting +on the fly. + +And I suppose it can also be done, but I never managed to do without NM: +let my linux in the far corner of the house boot and connect to wifi +without any user logged in... + +So in my case, a big +1 for NM and kill all sysvinit files for network. + +I acknowledge that I never tried to do bonding with NM, for example... + +><i> meaning: only look for USE_NM/NM_CONTROLLED (I forgot which), not demand +</I>><i> more than that. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> But ideally it would be nice if there was only one way to setup a +</I>><i> network.. and for me that means NetworkManager :). But drakxtools was +</I>><i> more advanced IIRC, so first NetworkManager needs to get more advanced, +</I>><i> more documentation, etc. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Cool possibilities with just NetworkManager: +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NMEnterpriseNetworking">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NMEnterpriseNetworking</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677148:">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677148:</A> +</I>><i> (all one bugzilla.gnome.org, seem duplicates, but there is a bug per +</I>><i> product, so bug for maybe gnome-control-center, gnome-shell, etc) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> 677144: network: make sure bridged devices are handled +</I>><i> 677145: network: make sure bridged devices are handled +</I>><i> 677146: network: make sure bonded devices are handled +</I>><i> 677147: network: make sure bonded devices are handled +</I>><i> 677148: network: make sure vlans are handled +</I>><i> 677149: network: make sure vlans are handled +</I>><i> 677150: network: make sure ipoib is handled +</I>><i> 677151: network: make sure ipoib is handled +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I had to lookup what ipoib (IP over infiniband) meant, article is here: +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://www.ietf.org/wg/concluded/ipoib.html">http://www.ietf.org/wg/concluded/ipoib.html</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> GNOME shell specific: +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677142:">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677142:</A> multiple nics (NM can +</I>><i> handle it, GNOME shell not) +</I>><i> 677142: network: make sure multiple nics are handled ok +</I>><i> 677143: network: make sure multiple nics are handled ok +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Note: The support is in NetworkManager. The GNOME bugs are to ensure it +</I>><i> is shown/exposed in the UI properly. Not sure if available in stuff like +</I>><i> KNetworkManager, but NM is not specific to GNOME. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> All bugs above are really server like things. I thought drakxtools still +</I>><i> was better at setting up Wifi; and I think that is more important to get +</I>><i> right than vlan/bridging/etc. +</I>><i> +</I> + +-- +J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com> \ Winter is coming... + + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="016196.html">[Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 specifications +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="016205.html">[Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 specifications +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#16198">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#16198">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#16198">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#16198">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |