I addressed this question to the NetworkManager list and received a couple of replies that I found to be quite educational. The topic appears on this list occasionally, so I thought it worthwhile to re- post here.
The essence of what I discovered is that its not NetworkManager but nm- applet, which is a separate package, albeit from the same source. There is an analogous program available for RL 3. Here's the thread. On 03/17/2009 10:45:51 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Geoffrey Leach <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Every so often on the Fedora list, there's a question about running >> NetworkManager on Fedora 10 at RunLevel 3, that is where there's no >> X >> windows or desktop running. It's generally acknowledged that at >> RunLevel 5 NetworkManager runs like a champ. Furthermore, >> it seems that >> the problem is mostly (always?) where the system relies on a >> wireless >> connection to a router. So, with all of that in mind, I thought I'd >> ask >> here and will re-post a summary of replies on the Fedora list. > > While I'm not a Fedora user, NM should work just fine from any level. > There are two prerequisites however: > > 1) You need to make sure all the required services are up (hal, dbus) > > 2) You need some sort of connection provided by: > > 2.1) An NM client > > 2.2) A system connection > > While 2.1 is currently not possible without using X (there are only 2 There is a project called cnetworkmanager [1], which afaics tries to fill exactly this gap [1] http://vidner.net/martin/software/cnetworkmanager/ -- _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
