Re: NetworkManager and RunLevel 3

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 18:45 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Geoffrey Leach <geoff hughes net> wrote:
> >> Every so often on the Fedora list, there's a question about running
> >> NetworkManager on Fedora 10 at RunLevel 3, that is where there's no X
> >> windows or desktop running. It's generally acknowledged that at
> >> RunLevel 5 NetworkManager runs like a champ. Furthermore,
> >> it seems that
> >> the problem is mostly (always?) where the system relies on a wireless
> >> connection to a router. So, with all of that in mind, I thought I'd ask
> >> here and will re-post a summary of replies on the Fedora list.
> > 
> > While I'm not a Fedora user, NM should work just fine from any level.
> > There are two prerequisites however:
> > 
> > 1) You need to make sure all the required services are up (hal, dbus)
> > 
> > 2) You need some sort of connection provided by:
> > 
> > 2.1) An NM client
> > 
> > 2.2) A system connection
> > 
> > While 2.1 is currently not possible without using X (there are only 2
> 
> There is a project called cnetworkmanager [1], which afaics tries to fill
> exactly this gap

Last I knew though (haven't checked in a bit) it wasn't quite up-to-date
WRT the NM 0.7.0 API...  Any idea if that's changed?

Dan