Re: connect at boot

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 23:22 +0100, Johan van der Slikke wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I read in various places that from NetworkManager 0.7, it is possible to let the daemon connect at boot. Now I have version 0.7 installed but my question is how to configure that?

The system settings service allows this.  It uses "plugins", which parse
and store configuration on disk that's available to NetworkManager
before any user logs in.  There are plugins to parse the native
configuration file formats of Fedora, SUSE, and Debian/Ubuntu, as well
as a distro-neutral plugin called "keyfile".  Look
in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf, there will be a
"plugins=" line there that is a comma-separated list of plugins.  A
plugin for your distro should already be there, if not add the "keyfile"
plugin.  Restart or just 'killall -TERM nm-system-settings', and if
you're using the keyfile plugin, you can create new system connections
in the connection editor (/usr/bin/nm-connection-editor), otherwise just
use your distros normal network configuration tools, or hand-edit the
files in the normal manner for your distro.  The connections will now be
available to NetworkManager at system boot time.

Dan