[Mageia-dev] PING for bug 2160

Sun Sep 25 18:32:59 CEST 2011

On 09/25/2011 12:05 PM, Balcaen John wrote:
+> Le Dimanche 25 Septembre 2011 11:21:51 Frank Griffin a écrit :
+>> so I question why it's needed.
+> Because of gnome 3.
+
+Considering that NM  activates (and fails) during network startup well 
+before GNOME ever gets into the picture, I doubt that it works any 
+better there.  Does GNOME 3 function with the older drakx support ?  If 
+so, could the requires for NM simply be removed until it works ?
+
+>
+>> Perhaps it should be moved to testing for those hardy souls for which
+>> it is useful, but I really can't see Mageia 2 going out the door with
+>> this level of wireless breakage.
+> Well so far nm is still not the default network manager for mageia.
+>
+Then why does it continue to try to manage my interfaces whether or not 
+I disable support in the ifcfg-wlan0 ?  Others have confirmed the same 
+behavior.  I'm not sure what significance "not being the default" has 
+here, unless you mean that we still provide support for the drakx stuff.
+
+Whether or not it is the default, just having it installed (or possibly 
+started by init, based on comments in the bug) is sufficient to break 
+wireless on many systems.
+