Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome
On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 21:59:49, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On 11 September 2012 21:32, Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle@coredump.us> wrote:
> > - There are other network managers than NM.
>
> Of course, but only one is part of GNOME. Nothing else integrates into
> GNOME Shell's top bar or System Settings (gnome-control-center).
Hmm. That itself sounds like a bug.
> GNOME 2 was different as wicd could integrate just as well as
> NetworkManager did.
>
> > - My experience has been that NM conflicts with wicd when NM is running.
>
> You have two network managers running on your computer and you expect
> networking to not have problems?
On a Wheezy VM I've been running (to do testing on the mumble package),
originally wicd was installed by default, but on an upgrade task-xfce-desktop
pulled in network-manager (via a Recommends on network-manager-gnome I
believe), leading to both running. Certainly not the desired behavior, but
surprisingly it actually worked for standard "wired" networking via dhcp.
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> It looks like you're right that NetworkManager itself doesn't come
> with documentation for disabling itself but maybe it should. 'man
> update-rc.d' works too though.
Yeah, as long as you know the command you need already; whether or not that's
obvious is certainly debatable.
-- Chris
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Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle@coredump.us
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