2010/9/25 Dan Williams <d...@redhat.com> > On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 17:31 +0100, Rune Gellein wrote: > > Hi, > > I tried to just kill the modem manager, but Network manager started it > > again, so if you remove it, network manager will continue to try to > > start it in the background. > > And because of these dependencies, when you update the system again, > > the modem manager will be pulled back in (at least in gentoo). > > > > So what I am looking for is a setting in the Network manager > > configuration to stop it from loading the modem manager at all. > > > > Anything like that available? > > At this time, you either remove the modem-manager package, or you remove > the dbus auto-activation file referenced earlier in this thread. > > I have various ideas how to only run ModemManager on-demand, which > basically revolve around using udev to spawn ModemManager if it's not > already running when a new serial port appears, and have MM quit if it's > not managing any modems. NM would then stop poking MM automatically, > and just rely on its presence. > > The one thing that doesn't solve is if MM crashes, it wouldn't > necessarily get restarted automatically, which is quite useful to > recover from bugs for users that don't know how to manually restart it. > > Dan >
And what about creating a "[modem-manager]" section on NetworkManager.conf? This way we could have a "disabled=true" directive to avoid loading MM, and a "debug=<level>" to easy debugging it.
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