Re: [SLUG] Re: network manager over writes resolv.conf
$quoted_author = Daniel Bush ; If it comes to that, there must be a way to disable network manager? There is! Install 'wicd' http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ cheers marty -- Nod. Mindreading is a less useful skill than mindwriting, considering all the blank media on the hoof in every major city. - Anthony de Boer alt.sysadmin.recovery - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: network manager over writes resolv.conf
My wireless AP uses WEP with 10 hex digit key, and I never managed to connect to it under NM since it wouldn't accept the key. Wicd works fine and I am very happy with it. Jan -- On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 20:25 +1100, Martin Barry wrote: $quoted_author = Daniel Bush ; If it comes to that, there must be a way to disable network manager? There is! Install 'wicd' http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ cheers marty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: network manager over writes resolv.conf
On Nov 24, 4:18 pm, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jeff... From my original post: System/Preferences/Network Configuration GUI tool fails with the following message: Updating connection failed: nm-ifupdown-connection.c.82 - connection update not supported (read only) So now that the lovely clever gui tool doesn't work, what do I do next? go back to the old fashioned config files that I was comfortable with? I can't because they are now mysteriously over-written or silently ignored! If it comes to that, there must be a way to disable network manager? Not saying you should, but I confess to having done this when I got a new laptop earlier this year. NM was working on my system but occasionally it wouldn't and when this happened I was hosed especially with wireless. I think what I did was to go into /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager and 26NetworkManagerDispatcher and disable the start scripts (ubuntu 8.04) That's probably totally totally wrong but it works for me. My resolv.conf hasn't been eaten since the 29-Mar-08. I have a shell script for switching between wireless and wired modes (involving wpa_supplicant etc) on top of the ifup-ifdown-etc/network/ interfaces stuff. -- Daniel Bush -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: network manager over writes resolv.conf
quote who=Daniel Bush If it comes to that, there must be a way to disable network manager? If you configure an interface in /e/n/i, NM will ignore it. This, from my perspective is just works for the computer-interested. :-) I have a shell script for switching between wireless and wired modes (involving wpa_supplicant etc) on top of the ifup-ifdown-etc/network/ interfaces stuff. /e/n/i (through scripts in the wpasupplicant package) supports all of that in a really easy-to-use fashion. Check out the README.Debian file in the wpasupplicant package (and man interfaces to see how mapping works). Of course, it's way easier to get NM to do the heavy lifting for you... ;-) - Jeff -- Robot Parade http://www.robotparade.com.au/ m. +61 423 989 818 p. +61 2 9318 0284 f. +61 2 9318 2884 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
