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

Tue Nov 22 01:10:31 CET 2011

Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com> writes:
+
+> 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.  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.  And
+> if you look in bug 2160, it appears that we have no maintainer for it.
+
+Well, there was also a bug in drakx-net about that, and I've finally
+found time to fix it.
+This has been introduced by the NM support added by Mandriva (revision
+271832), which we carelessly imported initially :-/
+
+Basically, if a NM_CONTROLLED setting was present in an ifcfg file, it
+would always be rewritten as "yes"...
+
+This bugfix was worth a big release bump, welcome drakx-net 1.0!
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+