On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 18:41 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 19:13 +0100, Alex Buell wrote: > > Are there any docs on the differences or changes between NetworkManager > > 0.8 and 0.8.1? The settings seems to have changed between 0.8 and 0.8.1. > > > > If I upgrade to 0.8.1 from 0.8, NetworkManager won't work any more but > > if I downgrade back to 0.8, it all starts working again. > > > > What changes were made? > > Over 650 commits; 80 bugs closed, etc. What exactly is the problem, and > when you say "doesn't work" what do you mean?
See below. > > Finally, from commments made on Gentoo forums it looks like > > NetworkManager prefers to work with dhclient rather than with dhcpcd. Is > > this true? > > Not true actually; it'll work with either. There was recently a bug > where if you had dhcp3 installed and had built NM with > --without-dhclient, that NM would still try to use dhclient. That's > since been fixed. You can always select your preferred DHCP client > using dhcp-client=[dhclient|dhcpcd] in the [main] section of the config > file too though. Aha, that's the exact problem I had! I'd better get Gentoo to put out a fixed version, I'll have to file a bug report. Once I move to 0.8.1 I'll carry on with the changes to add 56K modems. -- http://www.munted.org.uk One very high maintenance cat living here. _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
