[Mageia-dev] Drakx-net or NetworkManager for Mageia 2

Mon Nov 21 21:15:29 CET 2011

2011/11/21 Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com>:
+> On 11/21/2011 02:14 PM, Marianne Lombard wrote:
+>>
+>> What will Mageia team do ? Continue to maintain and enhance drakx-net or
+>> follow all others distributions with NetworkManager ?
+>
+> There are a number of serious problems with NM that have not, to my
+> knowledge, been dealt with.  It's particularly bad with wireless (which is
+> what Mageia tends to use it for the most); see bugs 856, 2160, 2416.
+Bug 856 is grub related so i guess we can forget this one ;o)
+Bug 2416 was submitted when nm 0.9 (well beta) was not patched to
+support our sysvinit script, we'll still waiting for an answer of the
+initial report.
+So 2160 is the only bug remaining here but i think it's probably the
+same bug aka it was reported when nm was not supporting sysvinit
+
+> Or
+> just google for NM problems (there's a ton of people having trouble with
+> it).
+>
+> One of the annoying things about it is that you can say "no" to it in the
+> ifcfg file, but it will try to handle the interface anyway.
+It's happening with the *current* networkmanager of with the beta when
+the patch was not applied because blino did fix the patch & now nm
+respect the ifcfg- command line.
+>  And if you look
+> in bug 2160, it appears that we have no maintainer for it.
+Well there's a lot of packages without maintainer ...
+
+
+
+-- 
+Balcaen John
+Jabber-id: mikala at jabber.littleboboy.net
+