Provided that your system includes the network-manager-gnome package (and its dependencies), you should be able to run NetworkManager's GUI connection editor from the command line using. nm-connection-editor You can attempt to start the GUI desktop applet as nm-applet, however it may not be able to interact with / dock within a simple WM.

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Using the NetworkManager Command Line Tool, nmcli To create a bridge, named bridge-br0 , issue a command as follows as root : ~]# nmcli con add type bridge ifname br0 Connection 'bridge-br0' (6ad5bba6-98a0-4f20-839d-c997ba7668ad) successfully added.

NetworkManager and the Network Scripts In previous Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases, the default way to configure networking was using network scripts. The term network scripts is commonly used for the script /etc/init.d/network and any other installed scripts it calls.

NetworkManager.conf(5) — network-manager — Debian jessie This plugin is used on the Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions to read and write configuration from the standard /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* files. It currently supports reading Ethernet, Wi-Fi, InfiniBand, VLAN, Bond, Bridge, and Team connections. How do I prevent Network Manager from controlling an