[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#458151: Bug#458151: Bug#458151: network-manager: NetworkManager incompatible with GNOME Network Control Panel

[Michael Biebl]

Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 13:57 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Daniel Dickinson schrieb:
>>
>>> Better yet remove NetworkManager and replace it with a daemon that 
>>> doesn't require X.
>> This claim is wrong. It seems you haven't understood the architecture of
>>  NetworkManager.
>> The NetworkManager daemon itself doesn't have any X dependencies.
> 
> My apologies.  In any event the main point of the bug report stands, as

I'm sorry for my rude tone. I just don't like bug reports with such a 
negative attitude.

> the network control panel can create configurations that confuse the
> network manager.  Perhaps if network manager could be made to notice
> existing connections (since it apparently does not require X and
> therefore should be able able to play nice with other non-X networking)?
> 
> If it is already *supposed* to do this, then this is a different bug
> than I thought.  If that is the case, is it fixed in lenny? (It doesn't
> do this in etch on my system, and from google I'm not the only one).

The upcoming 0.7 release will have support for static IP configurations.
It will also feature a component called nm-system-settings, which allows 
to pass configuration to NetworkManager without a logged in user.
nm-system-settings will have a plugin to parse /etc/network/interfaces 
and provide basic support for static IP configurations, wpa and wep 
settings.

Cheers,
Michael

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