distro-independence of NetworkManager?

[Matt Price]

On Wed, 2006-04-10 at 16:40 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Tony Yarusso wrote:
> 
> > I would like to write up a doc about how to access my university's
> > wireless network on Linux, to complement the PDFs they already have for
> > Windows and Mac.  It is a WPA2 network, so N-M is probably the best way to
> > handle it.  However, I don't know how far across the Linux spectrum N-M
> > spreads.  Can someone confirm what other distros have it, and anything you
> > know about differences in graphical frontends?
> 
> I believe it's default in FC5 and SuSE and available in Ubuntu, Debian and
> Gentoo.  All of them provide front-ends via Gnome (nm-applet) or KDE
> (knetworkmanager), so the obvious differences are more between the major
> desktops than between the distros.  The big difference: the debian/ubuntu
> patch that ignores wireless interfaces configured
> in /etc/network/interfaces.

anyone know the rationale for this patch?  It would be VERY nice to be
able to configure my wired connection for a static IP & switch btwn a
static wired & dynamic wireless connection...

matt


> -- 
> derek
> 
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