Re: Working/Non-working network adapters

[Paul Ionescu <i_p_a_u_l yahoo com>]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:38:03 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:

>> In the same vein, is there a way to tell NetworkManager to ignore
>> certain devices, or is something like that planned.  For example, a way
>> to filter out based on the MAC address of the adapter to never attempt
>> to use it.
> 
> Not really, that wasn't viewed as critical at this time.  The attitude was
> generally that "if you know its not going to work, why are you plugging it
> in..."  I'm open to being convinced otherwise though.

Sometimes it is useful to tell NM to ignore a network adapter.
Maybe I am plugging an adapter to connect to a local network, and I want
to configure it manually.