On Sunday 24 December 2006 09:26, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm running NetworkManager (NM) under Fedora-6 with KDE,
> but am not entirely happy with it,
Ditto - what I suspect we need is something like IBM's access connections
(on windows - yes I know) - its outstanding.
I move my laptop between wired, wireless, static and dhcp, at work at
several locations and at home as well as on the road (hotels, t-mobile and so
on). I found NM lacking in my situation when I last tried (i have not looked
at the latest version - maybe it can handle all this now)
My solution was to create a little sudo script to setup what I need then I
bound them to a KDE little slider panel. Click panel - it opens i click icon
for my location and it runs the script <location> - wired or wireless. Script
updates resolv.conf, network settings and keys, DNS (if neeeded), ntp,
sendmail etc. The scripts map the name given as an argument to a directory
and uses whatever is in there - resolv.conf, ifcfg-eth0 etc. So quite easy to
add new location info.
This is simple and works for me. But I concur it would be nice to have
something that is easy to set up out of the box and gives you control to set
up the things that need changing - without having to know where to put
keys.eth1 and so on.
Best of luck.
g/
