[Mageia-dev] Can't win - or, best of both worlds . . .!

[Anne Wilson]

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On 24/11/2012 20:38, John Balcaen wrote:
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> 2012/11/24 Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com 
> <mailto:ftg at roadrunner.com>>
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> On 11/24/2012 02:59 PM, John Balcaen wrote:
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> Suggest here: drop all ifcfg configuration files and switch to 
> keyfile plugin.
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> OK, in the spirit of Anne's original question, can you tell us 
> exactly what the keyfile plugin is and does, and how to use it ?
> I'll volunteer to do a fresh install and test it.
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> The keyfile plugin as said earlier is the default & native plugin
> to use with networkmanager [1] In order to introduce nm on
> distribution using ifcfg files (redhat/fedora) the ifcfg-rh plugin
> has been wrote to read & make nm able to use them (& avoid
> interferences between nm & the « old » scripts). So to use it you
> simply need to configure networkmanager by editing
> /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
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> For example on my workstation i've got : cat NetworkManager.conf 
> [main] plugins=keyfile dns=dnsmasq
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> [keyfile] hostname=aker.cauldron.lan.littleboboy.net 
> <http://aker.cauldron.lan.littleboboy.net>
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> it's mean that i'm using the keyfile plugin (read [1] or man 
> NetworkManager.conf for more details) & ask nm to to also start 
> dnsmasq for me. I also setup the hostname to set in nm in the
> keyfile section.
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> There's also no need to do a « fresh » install to test/use it.
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> [1] https://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/SystemSettings
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I confirm that following these instructions has enabled wireless
connection to the LAN.  Thanks, guys.  Now to tackle other problems :-)

Anne

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