[Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 specifications

Wed Jun 6 08:22:54 CEST 2012

Op woensdag 6 juni 2012 01:04:05 schreef JA Magallón:
+> On 06/05/2012 11:41 PM, Olav Vitters wrote:
+> > On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 10:44:31PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+> >> Le 05/06/2012 16:20, Olav Vitters a écrit :
+> >>> Also, with latest NetworkManager, it seems you can do pretty advanced
+> >>> network configurations (lacks UI). The UI is planned for GNOME 3.6.
+> >>> However, seems that loads of Mageia users have issues with
+> >>> NetworkManager, so not sure what to do. Perhaps safer to wait a year and
+> >>> hope that other distributions solve the bugs?
+> >> 
+> >> Approximatively 50% of those problems come from the coexistence with
+> >> drakxtools and sysinit, conflicting for the control of the
+> >> interface, rather than actual problems in NM code. Waiting for them
+> >> to magically disapear won't help much...
+> > 
+> > Ah ok, but shouldn't that all be fixed now that the patch is back to
+> > make NetworkManager properly ignore stuff that it should ignore?
+> 
+> I tink it is _lot_ easier even for drakxtools to write a file into
+> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections that to mess with ifcfg-* files.
+> 
+> And NM is the only sane way to have, in my case, 4 or 5 WiFi configurations
+> for the same interface and let it pick the right one depending on my
+> location. It is just marvelous, and without any ifcfg-* file rewriting
+> on the fly.
+> 
+> And I suppose it can also be done, but I never managed to do without NM:
+> let my linux in the far corner of the house boot and connect to wifi
+> without any user logged in...
+> 
+> So in my case, a big +1 for NM and kill all sysvinit files for network.
+> 
+> I acknowledge that I never tried to do bonding with NM, for example...
+[...]
+
+i need bonding and bridging and vlans, but what about AoE, or even STP in 
+bridging.
+
+next to wifi, what about vpns?
+
+for NM to replace initscripts/drakxtools/mganetapplet it not only needs to do 
+all that, but have for KDE and Gnome AND other DE's a way to graphically do 
+all that, that's preferably the same.
+
+i guess this ties in the fact that imho gnome tries to do too much. maybe it 
+would be better to have a single graphic UI that can handle NM no matter the 
+DE.
+
+in any case, imho it's too soon for us to drop drakxtools/mganetapplet/if-cfg* 
+(if ever).
+
+let's retalk about this for mga4.
+