On Friday 04 of June 2010 02:08:46 James K. Williams wrote: > When you click left on the NetworkManager applet, there is a list of > connections, and you must select one of the radio buttons there to get > networking working. What exactly does selecting that radio button do? > > Here's why I ask. I don't really need NM at all, because I can edit all the > network configuration files by hand and then restart network services with > > # services network restart > > This should be enough to bring networking up, but it's not: I still have to > select one of those radio buttons in the NM applet. To try to determine > what pressing that button does, I have checked services before and after, > and there is no difference. Also, I have checked the config files before > and after, and they are not changed. So what happens under the hood when I > select one of the buttons in the applet? Why doesn't networking come back > on until I press it? > > I'm using NetworkManager 0.7.1 on Fedora 9. > > Thanks.
There are two services to manage networks: network - legacy service used on Fedora NetworkManager - meant to replace network service You want probably use just one of them. So to use 'network' service, stop NetworkManager: service NetworkManager stop and disable it not to be run any more: chkconfig NetworkManager off Then you can manually configure ifcfg- files and do ifup/ifdown. NM applet is a client for NetworkManager daemon. When you click an item in NM applet, it communicates with NetworkManager daemon via D-Bus to activate the network connection. Jirka _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
