Re: Is this the way NM should work?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 17:52 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 16:32:44 Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 16:05 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> > > I have a laptop with both a working wireless interface and a working
> > > ethernet
> > > wired interface.  Normally, I run wireless.
> > >
> > > On Fedora 9, if I plug into the wired interface, it is brought up also
> > > so I
> > > now have both the wired and wireless interfaces enabled.  Fortunately,
> > > both
> > > interfaces are on the same (sub) network so routine does not get
> > > screwed up.
> > >
> > > This does not happen on Fedora 8.  On Fedora 8, when I plug in the
> > > wired
> > > interface, the wireless interface is disabled and the wired interface
> > > is
> > > enabled.  Conversely, when I unplug the wired interface, it is
> > > disabled and
> > > the wireless interface is enabled.
> > >
> > > The way things work under Fedora 8 is how I expect things to work.
> > > However,
> > > there may be good reasons for how things work in Fedora 9.
> >
> > What you discribe is a change between f6 and f9.
> 
> Sorry f8:
> [root eagle ~]# cat /etc/system-release 
> Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
> [root eagle ~]# rpm -q NetworkManager
> NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3370.fc8
> NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3370.fc8

Right, 3370 brings the multiple device support to F8.

Dan