[CentOS] NetworkManager under CentOS 4 *without* GNome...

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 24 May 2009 17:46:04 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 24 May 2009 10:57:57 -0400
> Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have been *manually* dealing with my wired and wireless network
> > interfaces on my laptop.  I have a pair of config files (in
> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/: ifcfg-eth0 (wired: Intel Corporation
> > 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile)) and ifcfg-eth1 (wireless:
> > Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter), both with
> > USERCTL=true (and ifcfg-eth0 also has ONBOOT=true).  I have manually
> > fiddled with the ESSID, etc. in ifcfg-eth1 when needed, but this is
> > tiresome.  I would like to use NetworkManager, since this sounds like
> > it might be easier.  I don't use the GNome desktop, so I probably won't
> > be able to use the stock GNome applet (this would not be a problem
> > normally since I would just write my own GUI thingy, but there seems to
> > be a complete lack of documentation for the GNome applet! But I have
> > the source code and will figure it out eventually.). I use FVWM as a
> > window manager and don't use a "desktop manager" at all. I run CentOS
> > 4.8 on my laptop (and no, I am in no hurry to upgrade to CentOS 5).
> > 
> > I've started NetworkManager (as root) and started NetworkManagerInfo
> > (both as myself and a 'dummy' user with a vanila GNome desktop), but
> > NetworkManagerInfo complains that there are no network interfaces
> > available.  Where does NetworkManager/NetworkManagerInfo get information
> > about available network interfaces?  I know that *both* interfaces work
> > just fine using the manual startup (eg ifup eth0 and ifup eth1).  Is
> > there a config file I need to mess with?  If so, where is it?
> > 
> > I tried googling and could not find any difinitively usefull information
> > (http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/nm.shtml has some information for FC5,
> > but it is not totally helpful).
> > 
> 
> We are on the same boat.
> I'm using http://stalonetray.sourceforge.net/ on my laptop.
> 
> AddToFunc StartFunction
> ...
> + I exec /usr/bin/stalonetray
> + I exec /usr/bin/nm-applet
> ...

OK, this creates a place for the applet to live.  The applet still does
not work.  I using Version: 0.3.1-4.el4:

sauron.deepsoft.com% rpm -q NetworkManager NetworkManager-gnome
NetworkManager-0.3.1-4.el4
NetworkManager-gnome-0.3.1-4.el4

Oh, and the applet in this version is named NetworkManagerInfo, not nm-applet.

> 
> 
> Best reagards, Bob
> 
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