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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Can't win - or, best of both worlds . . .!</H1>
<B>Anne Wilson</B>
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<I>Sun Nov 25 14:51:01 CET 2012</I>
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On 24/11/2012 20:38, John Balcaen wrote:
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</I>><i> 2012/11/24 Frank Griffin <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">ftg at roadrunner.com</A>
</I>><i> <mailto:<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">ftg at roadrunner.com</A>>>
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</I>><i> On 11/24/2012 02:59 PM, John Balcaen wrote:
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</I>><i> Suggest here: drop all ifcfg configuration files and switch to
</I>><i> keyfile plugin.
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> OK, in the spirit of Anne's original question, can you tell us
</I>><i> exactly what the keyfile plugin is and does, and how to use it ?
</I>><i> I'll volunteer to do a fresh install and test it.
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The keyfile plugin as said earlier is the default & native plugin
</I>><i> to use with networkmanager [1] In order to introduce nm on
</I>><i> distribution using ifcfg files (redhat/fedora) the ifcfg-rh plugin
</I>><i> has been wrote to read & make nm able to use them (& avoid
</I>><i> interferences between nm & the « old » scripts). So to use it you
</I>><i> simply need to configure networkmanager by editing
</I>><i> /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
</I>><i>
</I>><i> For example on my workstation i've got : cat NetworkManager.conf
</I>><i> [main] plugins=keyfile dns=dnsmasq
</I>><i>
</I>><i> [keyfile] hostname=aker.cauldron.lan.littleboboy.net
</I>><i> <<A HREF="http://aker.cauldron.lan.littleboboy.net">http://aker.cauldron.lan.littleboboy.net</A>>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> it's mean that i'm using the keyfile plugin (read [1] or man
</I>><i> NetworkManager.conf for more details) & ask nm to to also start
</I>><i> dnsmasq for me. I also setup the hostname to set in nm in the
</I>><i> keyfile section.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> There's also no need to do a « fresh » install to test/use it.
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> [1] <A HREF="https://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/SystemSettings">https://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/SystemSettings</A>
</I>><i>
</I>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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