-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 24/11/2012 20:38, John Balcaen wrote: > > > > 2012/11/24 Frank Griffin <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > On 11/24/2012 02:59 PM, John Balcaen wrote: > > > Suggest here: drop all ifcfg configuration files and switch to > keyfile plugin. > > > OK, in the spirit of Anne's original question, can you tell us > exactly what the keyfile plugin is and does, and how to use it ? > I'll volunteer to do a fresh install and test it. > > > The keyfile plugin as said earlier is the default & native plugin > to use with networkmanager [1] In order to introduce nm on > distribution using ifcfg files (redhat/fedora) the ifcfg-rh plugin > has been wrote to read & make nm able to use them (& avoid > interferences between nm & the « old » scripts). So to use it you > simply need to configure networkmanager by editing > /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf > > For example on my workstation i've got : cat NetworkManager.conf > [main] plugins=keyfile dns=dnsmasq > > [keyfile] hostname=aker.cauldron.lan.littleboboy.net > <http://aker.cauldron.lan.littleboboy.net> > > it's mean that i'm using the keyfile plugin (read [1] or man > NetworkManager.conf for more details) & ask nm to to also start > dnsmasq for me. I also setup the hostname to set in nm in the > keyfile section. > > There's also no need to do a « fresh » install to test/use it. > > > [1] https://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/SystemSettings > I confirm that following these instructions has enabled wireless connection to the LAN. Thanks, guys. Now to tackle other problems :-)
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