[Gllug] Ubuntu, Fedora pains

[John Winters]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:57:58 +0100, Richard Huxton <dev at archonet.com>
wrote:
[snip]
> All fine, except for the pain that is NetworkManager - yes, please 
> ignore my standard network settings and try your own after I log in 
> (presumably all the youngsters change their CAT5 cabled IP address with 
> their user accounts nowadays).

I ran into problems with NetworkManager on a clean Lenny installation the
other day.  It worked fine to start with but as soon as I installed NIS it
locked the workstation on boot by taking down the 'net connection at the
wrong moment.

Except on laptops using WiFi it's best disabled.

John

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