On Sunday 16 of February 2014 13:29:58 Fran�ois Andriot wrote:
> Le 16/02/2014 12:58, Michele Calgaro a �crit :
> >> With knetworkmanager8 is another problem. As I recently discovered with
> >> dismay, backend for NetworkManager in tdehw-lib only supports
> >> NetworkManager 9 and later. With NetworkManager 8 does not work.
> >> Therefore, it is necessary either add support for NetworkManager 8 to
> >> tdehw-lib or fix knetworkmanager8.
> >> http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::12085
> >> http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::12089
> >
> > Ah ah! I didn't know that, thanks. So knetworkmanager8 is still relevant
> > to the trunk and will have to stay until support for NM0.8 is added to
> > tdehw-lib. What about kpowersave? Is it still needed for some reasons?
> >
> > Cheers
> >    Michele
> >
> > -----------
>
> Hello,
> Networkmanager 0.8 is used in RHEL 6, which will be supported until the
> end of year 2023. (it was released in 2011)
> https://access.redhat.com/site/support/policy/updates/errata/
>
> So there are some professional users (like me) which would be interested
> in NM 0.8 support ...
>
> About tdepowersave, I believe that the current powersaving features in
> R14 already work in RHEL6.
>
> Francois
>

This is a very good reason to NetworkManager 8 was supported!

Slavek
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