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

Mon Nov 21 21:39:10 CET 2011

On 21/11/11 20:15, John Balcaen wrote:
+> 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 ...
+
+If NM is adopted could we also package a tainted pppd capable of 
+connecting to PPTP VPN's please.
+
+Thankyou
+Claire
+
+