Re: A question about NetworkManager

[Jon Nettleton <jon nettleton gmail com>]

On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 06:01 -0600, akonstam trinity edu wrote:
> As I understand it to use NetworkManager you stop the initscript
> network and start the initscripts NetworkManager and
> NetworkManagerDispatcher.
>  
> How then do you add new interfaces (let us say wireless interfaces)?
> Does system-config-network still work? Is there another configuration
> program that should be used? 
> I have heard of a program nm but I can't find it?

nm-applet is the client gui for NetworkManager.  You do not need to add
interfaces to NetworkManager because it uses HAL to detect your
networking hardware.  Just add nm-applet to your gnome-session startup
programs and you should get the gui interface you are looking for.

Jon