Brian Morrison wrote: >> The whole point of Linux is that it is not magic; >> you are meant to be able to work out what is going on.
> There is a complex interaction between NM, dbus and various other > things like udev, hal (becoming deprecated), PolicyKit etc. All of > these packages do something different but in a way that isn't always > clear. > > If anyone has any bright ideas about how to describe their interaction > in a clear and simple manner please go ahead. I have not managed to > work it out completely, so I suppose I should feel lucky that NM works > for me. You clearly have a pretty good idea of how NM works. If you, or someone like you, could just pen a short account that would be immensely helpful. If there were mistakes they could quickly be corrected. I would love to know, for example, which files NM looks at, or which files one can usefully change. I just get hints from time to time in various postings but there doesn't seem to be anything written down. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
