On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 04:56:44PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:

Am 26.07.2012 16:50, schrieb Scott Robbins:

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Unfortunately, according to folks who have more knowledge than I do about these things, in later versions of Fedora, and therefore, probably the next version or so of RH, just manually editing sysconfig/network-scripts will overlook some necessary parts. system-config-network-tui may wind up becoming necessary. Through RH 5.x it was enough to manually edit the necessary files.

says who? 3.4.6-2.fc17.x86_64

A few people on Fedora forums. My own, very un-scientific evidence is that once or twice, manually editing has given errors that I don't believe were due to typos. After getting bitten once, now I just quickly set up the network, download network-tui and fix it.

network.service has the same config as 10 years ago there is nothing preventing you disable networkmanager

[harry@rh:~]$ rpm -qa | grep system-config-network

Sorry if I was not clear on this. My point is that Fedora is trying to make it the default and pushing people to use it rather than the more traditional tools. At present, yes, it can still be disabled without any special effort.