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[Mageia-dev] Can't win - or, best of both worlds . . .!

+ Anne Wilson + cannewilson at googlemail.com +
+ Sun Nov 25 14:51:01 CET 2012 +

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+On 24/11/2012 20:38, John Balcaen wrote:
+> 
+> 
+> 
+> 2012/11/24 Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com 
+> <mailto:ftg at roadrunner.com>>
+> 
+> On 11/24/2012 02:59 PM, John Balcaen wrote:
+> 
+> 
+> Suggest here: drop all ifcfg configuration files and switch to 
+> keyfile plugin.
+> 
+> 
+> OK, in the spirit of Anne's original question, can you tell us 
+> exactly what the keyfile plugin is and does, and how to use it ?
+> I'll volunteer to do a fresh install and test it.
+> 
+> 
+> The keyfile plugin as said earlier is the default & native plugin
+> to use with networkmanager [1] In order to introduce nm on
+> distribution using ifcfg files (redhat/fedora) the ifcfg-rh plugin
+> has been wrote to read & make nm able to use them (& avoid
+> interferences between nm & the « old » scripts). So to use it you
+> simply need to configure networkmanager by editing
+> /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
+> 
+> For example on my workstation i've got : cat NetworkManager.conf 
+> [main] plugins=keyfile dns=dnsmasq
+> 
+> [keyfile] hostname=aker.cauldron.lan.littleboboy.net 
+> <http://aker.cauldron.lan.littleboboy.net>
+> 
+> it's mean that i'm using the keyfile plugin (read [1] or man 
+> NetworkManager.conf for more details) & ask nm to to also start 
+> dnsmasq for me. I also setup the hostname to set in nm in the
+> keyfile section.
+> 
+> There's also no need to do a « fresh » install to test/use it.
+> 
+> 
+> [1] https://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/SystemSettings
+> 
+I confirm that following these instructions has enabled wireless
+connection to the LAN.  Thanks, guys.  Now to tackle other problems :-)
+
+Anne
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