On Thu, Dec 19 2013, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:23:05 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> >> Canek told me off-list that, when using NM, you don't enable dhcpcd, >> >> NM handles it all. Poof and when the smoke cleared ... >> > >> > The same applies to Wicd, the default systemd config appears to have >> > broken both in the same way. Maybe something should be added to the >> > systemd wiki page to cover this. >> >> The systemd default config is OK; if I'm not mistaken, Allan manually >> enabled both NM and dhcpcd (and, at the time, wicd and dhcpcd). There >> is no (reasonable) way for systemd to know that this is broken; > > Right, I hadn't realised the configuration had been changed manually.
The configuration needed to be changed, just correctly :-). Out of the box, none of the network managers are enabled. My error was in enabling dhcpcd as well as NM. I did need to enable NM "manually". allan

