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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Drakx-net or NetworkManager for Mageia 2</H1>
<B>Claire Robinson</B>
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<I>Mon Nov 21 21:39:10 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 21/11/11 20:15, John Balcaen wrote:
><i> 2011/11/21 Frank Griffin<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">ftg at roadrunner.com</A>>:
</I>>><i> On 11/21/2011 02:14 PM, Marianne Lombard wrote:
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> What will Mageia team do ? Continue to maintain and enhance drakx-net or
</I>>>><i> follow all others distributions with NetworkManager ?
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</I>>><i> There are a number of serious problems with NM that have not, to my
</I>>><i> knowledge, been dealt with. It's particularly bad with wireless (which is
</I>>><i> what Mageia tends to use it for the most); see bugs 856, 2160, 2416.
</I>><i> Bug 856 is grub related so i guess we can forget this one ;o)
</I>><i> Bug 2416 was submitted when nm 0.9 (well beta) was not patched to
</I>><i> support our sysvinit script, we'll still waiting for an answer of the
</I>><i> initial report.
</I>><i> So 2160 is the only bug remaining here but i think it's probably the
</I>><i> same bug aka it was reported when nm was not supporting sysvinit
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</I>>><i> Or
</I>>><i> just google for NM problems (there's a ton of people having trouble with
</I>>><i> it).
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</I>>><i> One of the annoying things about it is that you can say "no" to it in the
</I>>><i> ifcfg file, but it will try to handle the interface anyway.
</I>><i> It's happening with the *current* networkmanager of with the beta when
</I>><i> the patch was not applied because blino did fix the patch& now nm
</I>><i> respect the ifcfg- command line.
</I>>><i> And if you look
</I>>><i> in bug 2160, it appears that we have no maintainer for it.
</I>><i> Well there's a lot of packages without maintainer ...
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If NM is adopted could we also package a tainted pppd capable of
connecting to PPTP VPN's please.
Thankyou
Claire
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