[CentOS] CentOS 7.5 (1804) and NetworkManager
James Hogarth
james.hogarth at gmail.com
Wed May 16 11:55:12 UTC 2018
On 15 May 2018 at 16:55, Michael Lampe <lampe at gcsc.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> Gnome's control-center now requires NetworkManager-wifi. But it's only a
> soft requirement, no shared libs involved.
>
> To keep your workstation NM-free, you want to install a dummy package that
> provides NetworkManager-wifi but actually contains nothing, ideally before
> updating to 7.5. Here's a script to create such a dummy:
> https://github.com/larsks/fakeprovide
>
> If you do this, control-center shows a sad face and some text (Oops, blah,
> blah, ...) in the WiFi tab. Just the same you always got in the network tab
> without NM. That's all.
>
Note that the 'network' service is considered legacy and gets just basic fixes.
It's not been recommended to disable NetworkManager for years at this point.
Unless you have a really tricky setup with openvswitch or something
like that it's a bad idea to disable NetworkManager at this point in
time.
As yourself why you are doing it, and what you are really hoping to gain.
Have a read of this to get a better grasp on NM:
https://www.hogarthuk.com/?q=node/18
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