Enabling Networkmanager - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 17-03-2009 Administration Manual

• You want to use SCPM for network configuration management. To use SCPM and
NetworkManager at the same time, disable the network resource in SCPM configu-
ration.

23.2 Enabling NetworkManager

If you want to manage your network connection with NetworkManager, enable Net-
workManager in the YaST Network Settings module. To enable NetworkManager,
proceed as follows:
1 Run YaST and go to Network Devices > Network Settings.
2 The Network Settings dialog opens. Go to the Global Options tab.
3 In the Network Setup Method field, activate User Controlled with NetworkMan-
4 Click Finish.
5 After choosing the method for managing network connections, set up your net-
After having enabled NetworkManager, configure your network connections with the
NetworkManager as described in
(page 293).
If you want to deactivate NetworkManager and control network the traditional way,
choose the Traditional Method with ifup option in the Network Setup Method field.
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work card using automatic configuration via DHCP or a static IP address or
configure your modem (for dial-up connections, use Network Devices > Modem).
To configure an internal or USB ISDN modem, select Network Devices > ISDN.
To configure an internal or USB DSL modem, select Network Devices > DSL.
Find a detailed description of the network configuration with YaST in
tion 19.4, "Configuring a Network Connection with YaST"
tion 20.1, "Wireless LAN" (page 271).
Section 23.3, "Configuring Network Connections"
Sec-
(page 232) and Sec-