On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Ken Teh <[email protected]> wrote: > > TUV needs an option in kickstart to turn off NM for designated cards. Btw, > NM_CONTROLLED="no" in ifcfg-eth0 is not sufficient. When you do this, I > lose DNS as well since apparently, NetworkManager usurps dhcp-client's role > in this. When I chkconfig NetworkManager off, everything works. > > So I now have that in my kickstart script for my desktops. > > Is Enterprise Linux mostly installed on laptops? I would have thought that > desktops still make a large fraction of its deployment. In fact I would > almost bet on it since Linux is still not trouble-free when it comes to > installing on laptops. In which case, it seems like a really bad idea to > foist the NetworkManager on people.
You can just do /sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 NetworkManager off (or /sbin/chkconfig --del NetworkManager) /sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 network on in the "%post". Eventually, once it can do bonding and bridging, NM'll be inescapable...
