[Debian-eeepc-devel] Wifi toggling on '901 (again...)

oz oz at bluemonk.de
Sun Sep 14 16:49:40 UTC 2008


On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:06:55 +0200
"Artur R. Czechowski" <arturcz at hell.pl> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:58:38AM +0200, oz wrote:
> > I decided to choose 'auto ra0', because I use network-manager and this
> > is written in its /usr/share/doc/network-manager/README.Debian:
> > 
> > "Only devices that are *not* listed in /etc/network/interfaces or which
> > have been configured "auto" and "dhcp" (with no other options) are
> > managed by NM."

> Just FYI: network-manager takes care also about allow-hotplug interfaces
> as long as they are configured as dhcp.

Yes, seems to be so. I'll put it on the wishlist for network-manager at
bugs.debian.org to correct it to:

"Only devices that are *not* listed in /etc/network/interfaces or which
 have been configured "auto" or "allow-hotplug" and "dhcp" (with no
 other options) are managed by NM."

cheers,
oz



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