Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 644

• Your computer is a Xen server or your system is a virtual system inside Xen.
• You want to use SCPM for network configuration management. To use SCPM and
NetworkManager at the same time, SCPM cannot control network resources. See
Section 27.5.1, "SCPM and NetworkManager"
• You want to use more than one active network connection simultaneously.
To enable or disable NetworkManager during the installation, click Enable Network-
Manager or Disable NetworkManager in Network Mode of Network Configuration. To
enable or disable NetworkManager on an installed system, follow these steps:
1 Open YaST.
2 Choose Network Devices > Network Card.
3 On the first screen, set the Network Setup Method option to User Controlled with
After choosing the method, set up your network card using automatic configuration via
DHCP or a static IP address or configure your modem. Find a detailed description of
the network configuration with YaST in
tion with YaST"
supported wireless cards directly in NetworkManager.
To configure NetworkManager, use NetworkManager applets. KDE and GNOME each
have their own applets for NetworkManager. For details, refer to KDE User Guide and
GNOME User Guide. An appropriate applet should start automatically with the desktop
environment. The applet is then shown as an icon in the system tray. The functions of
the applets are similar, but their interfaces are a little different. They can also be used
in other graphical environments with standard system tray support.
30.5.1 Differences between ifup and
If you use NetworkManager for network setup, you can easily switch, stop, or start
your network connection at any time from within your desktop environment using an
applet. NetworkManager also makes it possible to change and configure wireless card
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NetworkManager to use NetworkManager. To disable NetworkManager, set the
Network Setup Method option to Traditional Method with ifup.
(page 612) and
NetworkManager
(page 535).
Section 30.4, "Configuring a Network Connec-
Section 29.1, "Wireless LAN" (page 563). Configure