f8: NetworkManager + runlevel 3 problem

[John Summerfield]

Chris Jones wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 00:52 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> Ya. I meant tied to a any particular desktop environment.
>>> Until that's undone, it's not going to be very useful to me. I have two 
>>> desktop computers with PCI wireless cards, one's acting as a relay. I 
>>> have three Linux laptops with wireless, one's acting as a  relay. Any of 
>>> the others might have both interfaces active at any time, and there's no 
>>> guessing which (if either) should be the gateway to the Internet.
>>>
>>> None of my Linux laptops and only one of the wireless desktops boots to 
>>> runlevel 5.
>> Then just use iwconfig and forget about NM?
> 
> Maybe he wants the additional functionality or flexibility presented by
> NM (not saying this is the case, just postulating) - What I don't
> understand is why it is so hard for you to acknowledge that someone
> might what to try benefit from NM in a non-graphical environment.
> 
> Just telling users to suck it up and use something else instead is very
> dismissive.

Thanks Chris.

Wireless on Fedora sucks, and it seems it will suck for time to come.


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