Re: How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

2012-03-09 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 8 בMarch 2012 14:04:37 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Reference: http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/api/09/ref-settings.html Sadly I did not see any progress in http://bugs.debian.org/637769 Thanks for the pointer. Let's see how long does it take:

Re: How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

2012-03-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:02:27PM -0800, Michael Shiloh wrote: And what about those of us on embedded systems or others that offer only text-based interfaces? I'm trying to solve exactly this problem on a BeagleBoard via ssh, and can not use the GUI. On my laptop I moved at some point to

Re: How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

2012-03-08 Thread Micha
I have nothing much against network manager, especially these days with wifi and wpa etc which is a mess to setup manually. On a laptop it's a lifesaver (although I always get into trouble when I try to manually set an IP address). It's just that with a server (or even a

Re: How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

2012-03-08 Thread ronys
I've had luck with 'sudo telinit 6' in cases where the reboot command failed. There's also a /proc variable that will force a reboot when written to, but its name escapes me for the moment. Rony Anyways, thanks for the pointers, trying them out now. For some reason, the machine doesn't seem

Re: How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

2012-03-08 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 06:09:33PM +0200, ronys wrote: I've had luck with 'sudo telinit 6' in cases where the reboot command failed. There's also a /proc variable that will force a reboot when written to, but its name escapes me for the moment. /proc/sysrq-trigger Read 'man proc' Also note

How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

2012-03-07 Thread Micha
I have a redhat 6 desktop based system that exhibits a behavior where sshd fails to start on startup despite being enabled and requires manual startup after user login. I want to enable remote access before there is actual user login on the system I believe I pinpointed the problem tp

Re: How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

2012-03-07 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:21:02AM +0200, Micha wrote: I have a redhat 6 desktop based system that exhibits a behavior where sshd fails to start on startup despite being enabled and requires manual startup after user login. I want to enable remote access before there is actual user login on

Re: How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

2012-03-07 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 03/08/2012 12:21 AM, Micha wrote: I believe I pinpointed the problem tp NetworkManager being installed and enabled, which means that no network connection is actually configured before a user is logged in. No, it does not mean that at all. Simply set your eth0 connection to be a system

Re: How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

2012-03-07 Thread Michael Shiloh
On 03/07/2012 08:47 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: On 03/08/2012 12:21 AM, Micha wrote: I believe I pinpointed the problem tp NetworkManager being installed and enabled, which means that no network connection is actually configured before a user is logged in. No, it does not mean that at all.