On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:34 +0100, Bjørge Solli wrote: > Dan Williams skrev: > > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 17:27 +0100, Bjorge Solli wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> I'm trying to set up NM on Fedora 8 x86 and used yum to install the > >> NetworkManager[-gnome] packages. > >> > >> If I use 'chkconfig NetworkManager on' or start NetworkManager manually > >> with the init.d-script, it results in the eth0 (cabled network) going > >> down. Is there a way to get it to keep the existing connections? > >> > > > > No; when you start NetworkManager it will begin managing your > > connections. Is this a machine that you wish to leave unattended with > > network access? > > > See I was a bit unclear. NM may take the network down as long as it > takes it up again. I have network login and if no network is available > noone can log in. > > The strange thing is that I cannot even log in as root (not in gdm nor > in text console), I had to reboot into runlevel 1 to do a chkconfig > NetworkManager off! I really don't understand why root was denied as > network is not needed for that.
Until the system settings stuff is available (which is what I'm working on right now) for Fedora 8 and rawhide, somebody must log so that the applet is available to provide NetworkManager with the connections that NM is allowed to activate. Essentially, something must provide the org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings D-Bus service, and the only thing that currently does that is nm-applet or knetworkmanager, which only run when somebody logs in. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
