Re: Changes between NetworkManager 0.8 and 0.8.1

[Robby Workman <rw rlworkman net>]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:33:52 -0500
Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 19:22 -0500, Robby Workman wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:10:16 -0500
> > Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 18:58 -0500, Robby Workman wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:41:01 -0500
> > > > Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > You can always select your preferred DHCP client using 
> > > > > dhcp-client=[dhclient|dhcpcd] in the [main] section of 
> > > > > the config file too though.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Maybe I misunderstood, but this should work, right?
> > > > 
> > > >   [rworkman liberty ~]$
> > > > cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf [main]
> > > >   plugins=keyfile
> > > >   dhcp-client=dhcpcd
> > > >   
> > > >   [keyfile]
> > > >   hostname=liberty
> > > > 
> > > > If the answer is yes, then one of us has a problem 
> > > > (that's a good-natured comment - no insult intended) :-)
> > > 
> > > Yeah, that should work...  if not then yeah, there's a problem :)
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Well, here's what I see in ps output:
> > 
> > /sbin/dhclient -d -4 -sf /usr/libexec/nm-dhcp-client.action
> > -pf /var/run/dhclient-wlan0.pid
> > -lf /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient-93af950b-1619-4ce9-a172-645147565970-wlan0.lease
> > -cf /var/run/nm-dhclient-wlan0.conf wlan0
> > 
> > This is after a reboot (to ensure that both the daemon and 
> > nm-applet were started fresh).  I suppose it's possible that
> > my NM configure arguments could be at fault, so here they are:
> > 
> > ./configure \
> >   --prefix=/usr \
> >   --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
> >   --sysconfdir=/etc \
> >   --localstatedir=/var \
> >   --mandir=/usr/man \
> >   --docdir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION \
> >   --with-pppd-plugin-dir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/pppd/2.4.5 \
> >   --with-crypto=gnutls \
> >   --without-resolvconf \
> >   --with-dhcpcd=/sbin/dhcpcd \
> >   --with-dhclient=yes \
> >   --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
> > 
> > Where should I begin looking to see what's going on here?  
> 
> So I lied earlier.  The key is:
> 
> dhcp=dhcpcd
> 
> not 'dhcp-client'.  Which should also be documented in 'man
> NetworkManager.conf' actually.


Yay, outstanding.  I should have found that on my own though :/

Anyway, it does indeed work; thanks, Dan!

-RW