Operation Manual
E-Mail and Proxies
As with printing, the list of the corresponding servers must be current.
X (Graphical Environment)
If your laptop is temporarily connected to a projector or an external monitor, the
different display congurations must be available.
openSUSE offers several ways of integrating laptops into existing operating environ-
ments:
NetworkManager
NetworkManager is especially tailored for mobile networking on laptops. It provides
a means to easily and automatically switch between network environments or dif-
ferent types of networks, such as wireless LAN and ethernet. NetworkManager
supports WEP and WPA-PSK encryption in wireless LANs. It also supports dial-
up connections (with smpppd). Both desktop environments (GNOME and KDE)
include a front-end for NetworkManager. For more information about the desktop
applets, see Section “Using KNetworkManager” (Chapter 5, Using NetworkMan-
ager, ↑Start-Up) and Section “Using GNOME NetworkManager Applet” (Chapter 5,
Using NetworkManager, ↑Start-Up).
Table 30.1
Use Cases for NetworkManager
Use NetworkManagerMy computer…
Yesis a laptop
Yesis sometimes attached to different networks
Noprovides network services (such as DNS or DHCP)
Noonly uses a static IP address
Use the YaST tools to congure networking whenever NetworkManager should
not handle network conguration.
SLP
The service location protocol (SLP) simplies the connection of a laptop to an ex-
isting network. Without SLP, the administrator of a laptop usually requires detailed
knowledge of the services available in a network. SLP broadcasts the availability
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