Network Manager, Firefox and more on FC10

[Robin Laing]

Mark Haney wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> 
>> All I did when I installed F9 was check that box.
>>
>> When I log into KDE, the NM applet pops up its notice saying that the
>> ethernet is connected. But it's connected at least by time the login
>> screen comes up.
>>
> 
> Nope.  Didn't work for me. Doesn't work that way in F10 either.  Again,
> I hate to beat a dead horse, but NM is great, in theory.  But only so.
> The current implementation is just badly conceived and I hate being
> forced to deal with it.  Linux was all about choice at one time. I don't
> like getting crap like NM shoved down my throat.
> 
> Which is why I run Gentoo now on my personal systems.
> 
> 
If you don't like Network Manager, just remove it.

It worked for me on one machine but the other it wouldn't enable the 
network on boot.  I have not tried the static IP with NM on F10 yet.  It 
is working quite well on F7.

I run a static IP on this machine and I need the network at boot time so 
I just configured the network normally and removed network manager.

Note that system-config-network didn't set the network properly.  I had 
to manually change /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 manually.

-- 
Robin Laing