Re: system-config-network "activate", "deactivate" button greyed out
On Thursday 06 August 2009 01:52:38 daniel shi wrote:
what i do now is edit the interface in
system-config-network, save the changes, then activate the interface in
network manager. this works, but somehow is a little inconvenient.
If you use Network Manager, this is precisely how it is meant to work, as has
been explained several times on the list (you might want to search the
archives).
In short, the system-config-network utility is used for configuring network
devices. Activating them is done from the application that controls their
usage --- if the device is controlled by Network Manager (a checkbox in the
settings), then only Network Manager can and should activate it. However, if
you use network service instead of Network Manager, the checkbox should be off
in the settings, and activation should be done via "service network start" in
the command line, or automatically on boot.
The "activate" and "deactivate" buttons from s-c-n should also work in
the
latter case, but I never liked them, they always felt somehow too clumsy for
my taste.
The "edit" button in NM is greyed out because the configuration is (and should
be) done from s-c-n, not NM itself. However, I agree that this "edit" button
could be made to open s-c-n, which would be an intuitive and good solution. I
don't know why this has not been configured like that already.
HTH, :-)
Marko