On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 10:44:31PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le 05/06/2012 16:20, Olav Vitters a écrit : > >Also, with latest NetworkManager, it seems you can do pretty advanced > >network configurations (lacks UI). The UI is planned for GNOME 3.6. > >However, seems that loads of Mageia users have issues with > >NetworkManager, so not sure what to do. Perhaps safer to wait a year and > >hope that other distributions solve the bugs? > Approximatively 50% of those problems come from the coexistence with > drakxtools and sysinit, conflicting for the control of the > interface, rather than actual problems in NM code. Waiting for them > to magically disapear won't help much...
Ah ok, but shouldn't that all be fixed now that the patch is back to make NetworkManager properly ignore stuff that it should ignore? meaning: only look for USE_NM/NM_CONTROLLED (I forgot which), not demand more than that. But ideally it would be nice if there was only one way to setup a network.. and for me that means NetworkManager :). But drakxtools was more advanced IIRC, so first NetworkManager needs to get more advanced, more documentation, etc. Cool possibilities with just NetworkManager: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NMEnterpriseNetworking https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677148: (all one bugzilla.gnome.org, seem duplicates, but there is a bug per product, so bug for maybe gnome-control-center, gnome-shell, etc) 677144: network: make sure bridged devices are handled 677145: network: make sure bridged devices are handled 677146: network: make sure bonded devices are handled 677147: network: make sure bonded devices are handled 677148: network: make sure vlans are handled 677149: network: make sure vlans are handled 677150: network: make sure ipoib is handled 677151: network: make sure ipoib is handled I had to lookup what ipoib (IP over infiniband) meant, article is here: http://www.ietf.org/wg/concluded/ipoib.html GNOME shell specific: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677142: multiple nics (NM can handle it, GNOME shell not) 677142: network: make sure multiple nics are handled ok 677143: network: make sure multiple nics are handled ok Note: The support is in NetworkManager. The GNOME bugs are to ensure it is shown/exposed in the UI properly. Not sure if available in stuff like KNetworkManager, but NM is not specific to GNOME. All bugs above are really server like things. I thought drakxtools still was better at setting up Wifi; and I think that is more important to get right than vlan/bridging/etc. -- Regards, Olav
