[Mageia-dev] PING for bug 2160

[Balcaen John]

Le Dimanche 25 Septembre 2011 12:32:59 Frank Griffin a écrit :
> 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 ?
[...]
> 
> 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.
Because it's probably mis configured on your computer i guess.
For memory the first release of nm in mageia were not able to handle the 
ifcfg scripts and blino recently patch it to make it ignore/respect 
interface which were not supposed to be handled by nm.
Now with the ifcfg-rh plugin loaded before the keyfile plugin everything 
should work correctly (aka nm won't launch an interface managed by the 
drakx tools)

> 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.
Well we're supposed/trying to switch to systemd & currently (on systemd) 
it is not started automatically.
& Even if it was started automatically according to the blino patch it 
should not start/enable the wrong interface anymore.

But the good solution might be to drop gnome3 so we won't have to 
provide nm at all :) (said with my kde maintainer hat :p )

Regards,



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Balcaen John