Package: network-manager Version: 0.6.5-3 Severity: wishlist It would be useful if network-manager would connect to known networks when the system came up, rather than when the user logs in. There are lots of things the system does regardless of whether anyone is logged in, and some of those things fail without network access (e.g., email, time syncronization, possibly running various scripts).
This wish seems to contradict the theory of operation outlined in the upstream README, so it is, in effect, a request to reconsider the design. As I understand the current design, information on what networks to connect to, as well as passwords, is kept in a user session and is private to the user. A possible middle ground would be to allow the user to designate certain connection information as available for system-wide use. Currently, my boot-up is also delayed as dhcp-client attempts to get dhcp information--which it can't, since there are no network connections. That particular problem may have a less drastic solution--maybe remove the interface declaration entirely from /etc/network/interfaces? The current Debian README seems to indicate things should work with interfaces set auto and dhcp (and nothing else), but it looks to me as if the regular processing of the interfaces file kicks in a start up. Network manager does grab them later. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages network-manager depends on: ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.1.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii dhcdbd 3.0-1 D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl ii hal 0.5.10-5 Hardware Abstraction Layer ii ifupdown 0.6.8 high level tools to configure netw ii iproute 20071016-3 Professional tools to control the ii iputils-arping 3:20071127-1 Tool to send ICMP echo requests to ii libc6 2.7-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgcrypt11 1.4.0-3 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.3-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgpg-error0 1.4-2 library for common error values an ii libhal1 0.5.10-5 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libiw29 29-1 Wireless tools - library ii libnl1-pre6 1.0~pre6-5 Library for dealing with netlink s ii libnm-util0 0.6.5-3 network management framework (shar ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii wpasupplicant 0.6.0-4 Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I Versions of packages network-manager recommends: ii network-manager-kde 1:0.2-2 KDE systray applet for controlling -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
