Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
NetworkManager does not (as far as I know) use ifcfg files unless you select "Available for all users" checkbox, but rather keeps interface data somewhere inside $HOME directory (.gconf subdirectory maybe) in unreadable format for humans.
Is this true? I have the impression that NM takes note of NM_MANAGED=yes or no in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 (or whatever). So I assume from this that NM must read these files.
I wish someone would document NM, explaining what files it consults, and something about how it is supposed to function.
In my experience NM works fine 95% of the time; but when it does not work it is often very difficult to work out exactly where the problem lies. In particular the entries in /var/log/messages are completely useless.
Another annoyance is that the network service seems to have got tangled up with NM, at least in Fedora-16; they used to be more or less independent.