Am Mittwoch, 4. Dezember 2013, 11:46:50 schrieb Frederic Crozat:
Le mercredi 04 décembre 2013 à 07:20 +0400, Ilya Chernykh a écrit :
On Wednesday 04 December 2013 04:44:51 Ignacio Areta wrote:
So, the question is in the subject. I'd like to understand the motivation behind this choice. In my opinion, NetworkManager should be the default for network setup. The use of ifup doesn't show any advantage: configuration for WiFi is problematic (and sometimes for wired networks too), it increases the startup time and the service doesn't restart properly.
OK, NetworkManager has its problems too, but it's a better solution than this, specially for newbies in this distro.
So, does someone have any plans to change this?
* Sometimes graphical boot fails, for example, when video drivers not properly installed. In this case Network Manager does not work, and there is no access to the repositories. As as explained below
* Network manager cannot keep the connection between user sessions, when changing the user or a desktop. It can, if you configure it to share a connection by all users..
And even more... The system wide configuration can be done using configuration files in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections, which is not more diffcult than writing configuration files for ifup/ifdown in /etc/sysconfig/network/. A man page describing the configuration files is available, too. I have already configured a headless rasberrypi to use an UMTS stick using Networkmanager without nm-applet or plasmoid-networkmanagement. What's missing is support in yast for configuring NetworkManagers system connections. Herbert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org