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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> +Ah ok, but shouldn't that all be fixed now that the patch is back to +make NetworkManager properly ignore stuff that it should ignore? + +meaning: only look for USE_NM/NM_CONTROLLED (I forgot which), not demand +more than that. + + +But ideally it would be nice if there was only one way to setup a +network.. and for me that means NetworkManager :). But drakxtools was +more advanced IIRC, so first NetworkManager needs to get more advanced, +more documentation, etc. + +Cool possibilities with just NetworkManager: +<A HREF="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NMEnterpriseNetworking">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NMEnterpriseNetworking</A> + +<A HREF="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677148:">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677148:</A> +(all one bugzilla.gnome.org, seem duplicates, but there is a bug per + product, so bug for maybe gnome-control-center, gnome-shell, etc) + +677144: network: make sure bridged devices are handled +677145: network: make sure bridged devices are handled +677146: network: make sure bonded devices are handled +677147: network: make sure bonded devices are handled +677148: network: make sure vlans are handled +677149: network: make sure vlans are handled +677150: network: make sure ipoib is handled +677151: network: make sure ipoib is handled + +I had to lookup what ipoib (IP over infiniband) meant, article is here: +<A HREF="http://www.ietf.org/wg/concluded/ipoib.html">http://www.ietf.org/wg/concluded/ipoib.html</A> + + +GNOME shell specific: +<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 +handle it, GNOME shell not) + 677142: network: make sure multiple nics are handled ok + 677143: network: make sure multiple nics are handled ok + +Note: The support is in NetworkManager. The GNOME bugs are to ensure it +is shown/exposed in the UI properly. Not sure if available in stuff like +KNetworkManager, but NM is not specific to GNOME. + +All bugs above are really server like things. I thought drakxtools still +was better at setting up Wifi; and I think that is more important to get +right than vlan/bridging/etc. + +-- +Regards, +Olav +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="016194.html">[Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 specifications +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="016198.html">[Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 specifications +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#16196">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#16196">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#16196">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#16196">[ 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> |