Re: Initial version of a SuSE backend

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 11:09 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:29:12PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > Btw: NM seems to read the config files for static setups, but static
> > > configurations are not supported until now, or do I miss something?
> > 
> > Correct, static configs have been supported for a while, but of course depend on 
> > reading the system's config files since NM doesn't have a configuration applet 
> > (which arguably it should not).  Therefore, the user uses the normal system 
> > tools to configure static IP addresses, and NetworkManager picks those settings 
> > up from the config files.  Backends should implement this functionality if they 
> > wish to support static IP.
> 
> I mean, it reads the the device conf, gets a static ip, mask, gw from it,
> use_dhcp is FALSE, but NM still gets the IP by DHCP regardless of the
> settings read. That's the behavior I see. Does this already work for you?
> Do I need to implement it or just fix it in my setup?

I had the same problem on my laptop yesterday, so I'm not sure it's
specific to your backend in that case.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>