On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 17:10 -0500, Beartooth wrote: > On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 01:26:47 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote in the > developers' list (where I have no business even asking anything) : > > > Network Manager > > > > http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/ > > I went and looked at that site, and it sounds good; but it uses dbus and > hal, neither of which I ever heard tell of, and I don't even have man > entries for them -- not that I'd likely be able to grasp them if I had > them. Otoh, it's clearly meant to be maximally user-friendly once it's on > a system. Both are included in FC3 (as services) > > So I have a Very Dumb Question : can NM by any chance be used to *create* > a LAN? No. The objective of NM is to provide an automatic switch on a laptop to the best connection; Typically switching to wireless when the eth is unplugged and switching back when a wired connection is available. BTW, while not so indicated, NM is (IMO) experimental. > > I'm just a self-taught old fart with other priorities, but I'll soon have > four or five machines running in this house (behind a router; one, maybe, > completely isolated physically from the Net, which I suppose means no > router either, and no admission to a LAN). It would be nice to be able to > tell them to talk to one another -- share bookmarks, exchange files, use a > common printserver, and so forth. > > At this point, afaict, setting the network up would have a learning curve > I'm not ready to tackle. Someday, the hotshots (Bless their fertile > brains!) will automate the setup process, to where the likes of me need do > no more than at present with installation -- which has improved *vastly* > from my point of view since RH 6.0, where I couldn't do it at all. > > The last place I asked (a LUG near me) didn't indicate that day had come > yet -- so I'm still looking and hoping .... > > -- > Beartooth Autodidact, curmudgeonly codger learning linux > Remember I know precious little of what I'm talking about! > > ________________________________________________________________________ Total Quality Management - A Commitment to Excellence http://www.TQMcube.com
