several discrepancies with new -2139 kernel.

[Gene Heskett]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
>> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>
>>> Now try running an editor like KWrite, vi, Joe, or mcedit on one of
>>> the files. Changes you make in one will show up in the other. (There
>>> are more editors you could use, I just listed a few...)
>>>
>>> You may want run ls -l on one of the ifcfg-eth0 files, and see if
>>> there are still 3 links. If not, it may break some utilities.
>>
>> There are 3 yet.
>> [root at diablo ~]# ls -l `locate ifcfg-wlan0`
>> -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 303 May 22 21:34 
>> /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-wlan0
>> -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 303 May 22 21:34 
>> /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-wlan0
>> -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 303 May 22 21:34 
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
>>
>> And I STILL fail to see the point of all this, rather like we have a 
>> committee working on that one script and its support. :-)
> 
> Well, the point is to provide network profiles so that mobile users can 
> change profiles when they change locations and not have to reconfigure 
> their network settings every time.  So you could have one profile for 
> work and one for home, and you could swap just by selecting the profile 
> from system-config-network.  Then the hard link in 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts gets changed to point to the one in the 
> appropriate /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/ directory.
> 
> In fact, for most mobile applications, NetworkManager is the better tool 
> anyway.
> 
I've never been able to make it work with the broadcom radio in this 
lappy.  To me NM is terminally broken. YMMV of course.

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Cheers, Gene