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raylz

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Registered: 2011-01-07

Posts: 3

NetworkManager: Disable interfaces in new rc.conf

Im using NetworkManager and Gnome 3.2. The wiki article on NetworkManager is not up to date (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager).

Since the new rc.conf came out I'm having problems with connecting to wireless networks. It's either very slow, or only works randomly (WPA2 enterprise). The only way that i can get it working is to use

ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan0 up

and i often have to repeat that 2 or more times.

So i was wondering if something else initializes the interfaces before NetworkManager (you had to disable them prior to this in the rc.conf). In the new rc.conf i dont see any option to disable the initialization of those interfaces it. How do i do this?

HeSaid

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From: southwest Florida USA

Registered: 2010-07-02

Posts: 53

Re: NetworkManager: Disable interfaces in new rc.conf

I have found networkmanager to be both slow to restart from suspend and unreliable in maintaining connection speed when compared to wicd on gnome 3.2.  It's easy to install (wicd & wicd-gtk) and remove for testing purposes. 
wicd-gtk does not show up in the system tray, instead, it shows in the notification bar, bottom right corner, with a mouse-over.
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