design decissions in nm ?

2006-01-18 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Hi list, I (for the first time) tried out nm and well it partly works nice. Now comes the unavoidable but: For me it is completely unclear how I can have customized network settings, i.e. custom ip address/netmask/gateway/dns's and also I'd like to use different MAC addresses depending on where

Re: design decissions in nm ?

2006-01-18 Thread James Ettle
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:47 +0100, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: I am and might even want to run additional scripts to start applications etc... As far as I understand, this can be achieved using the NetworkManagerDispatcher service. It calls scripts in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d with

Re: design decissions in nm ?

2006-01-18 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:47 +0100, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: Hi list, I (for the first time) tried out nm and well it partly works nice. Now comes the unavoidable but: For me it is completely unclear how I can have customized network settings, i.e. custom ip address/netmask/gateway/dns's

Re: Problem with closed network

2006-01-18 Thread Lachlan Pease
Try running nm-applet from a terminal/console and see what it says. This could be a bug, it could be a problem with your dbus security or the package you installed (i.e. not installing the glade files), it could probably be a problem with something else as well, but those are the things that