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Did he say anything?
Did he say anything?
Posted Feb 21, 2008 16:07 UTC (Thu) by Frej (subscriber, #4165)In reply to: Did he say anything? by ekj
Parent article: Planning for Ubuntu 8.10ish - The Intrepid Ibex
With regard to networking..... It's pretty easy to deliver since it's already in fedora 9 as pre releases of network-manager 0.7. Which has support for "more networking" in the form of 3g (CDMA?) pcmcia cards and similar stuff.
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Did he say anything?
Posted Feb 22, 2008 12:46 UTC (Fri) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link]
<rant> If that version allows one to finally configure bridging or at least not f*ing around ones configuration I would be happy. </rant> Network-manager is great on laptops, but when you want to do your own static advanced configuration it forces you to remove the whole thing.
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Posted Feb 22, 2008 13:25 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
In Debian, at least, Network manager will ignore any interfaces you have configured in /etc/network/interfaces and there is support for bridging interfaces for that style of network configuration. Ubuntu, unless they are morons, should have the same sort of behavior since everything they use (of this sort of thing) is from Debian.
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Posted Feb 22, 2008 14:27 UTC (Fri) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link]
They may not be morons, but believe it's more important to make simple things work for morons than have features work for "power users". Which is worst, I let others to decide. On the other hand, if you remove network-manager (just an "apt-get remove" away), the Debian configuration works on Ubuntu as well.
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Posted Feb 24, 2008 9:31 UTC (Sun) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]
Yes, /etc/network/interfaces and GUI frontends like NetworkManager are certainly stomping on each others. E.g., I boot Kubuntu 7.04 LiveCD (or was that 7.10 ?) on Sony VAIO VGN-TX5MRN, and to operate wireless interface (eth1) from inside KDE, I have first to run 'ifdown' for it, as it is listed in /e*/n*/i*s and brought up on the LiveCD startup (naturally, without any knowledge about SSID, passphrase and so on). I would wish that all these GUI configuration tools be wrappers/frontends to their command-line underlyings, which in turn could easily be used without any GUI.