What is the matter with fedora 9?
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Jun 26 19:23:44 UTC 2008
Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> After about a dozen installs of Fedora 9 I cannot agree with you on
> that. On every system save one there is only one network connection, in
> each of those cases it's been /dev/eth0 and NM would not enable the
> connection by default.
> Maybe there's documentation on the way that will make NM a breeze to
> configure but until that time it's out the window. I disable the
> NetworkManager service and enable the network service during kickstart
> installs. All my systems have a statically leased DHCP address and it
> works just fine.
> Bottom line for me: NM breaks far more than it fixes.
>
One problem for a lot of people is that NM does not open the network
connection until the user logs in. This is a problem for anything
that needs a network connection before you log in.
Mikkel
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