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

Mon Nov 21 23:25:39 CET 2011

On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:51:12 -0500
+Juan Luis Baptiste <juancho at mageia.org> wrote:
+
+> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Angelo Naselli <anaselli at linux.it> wrote:
+> > Well i believe there are only two distros in which it works really -that i
+> > tested of course- Fedora and Ubuntu.
+> 
+> Add OpenSUSE to the list, I have been using it with my work laptop for
+> more than seven months without any issues.
+> 
+
+And it is working for me pretty fine in Mageia Cauldron, specially for
+wireless networks, in 3 or 4 laptops. I finally have been able to do things
+that I had never managed to set up with net-applet:
+
+- have a zillion (well, really like 5 or 6) wifi network setups in
+  /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections and let the daemon pick one without
+  the need to rewrite ifcfg-wlan0 (even automagically)
+- have a wireless network being started and connected without a user logged in,
+  just at system boot
+- restart daemons like gmond, that do not play fine on network ups and downs
+  from /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d
+
+Setting all those things is easy from the point of view of a cli admin, you can
+even copy many things from one system to another and have it working.
+I vote for going to NM, and use a setup tool that writes files into
+/etc/NetworkManager/system-connection for wired system connections.
+
+And I really think that NM plays much nicer with the rest of systemd
+environment than current scripts.
+
+Just my 2 cents...
+