How do I disable NetworkManager in favor of dhcp setup?

[Michael Shiloh]

On 03/07/2012 08:47 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> On 03/08/2012 12:21 AM, Micha wrote:
>> I believe I pinpointed the problem tp NetworkManager being installed and
>> enabled, which means that no network connection is actually configured
>> before a user is logged in.
> No, it does not mean that at all. Simply set your eth0 connection to be
> a "system connection" to resolve your problem.
>
> On a wider note, I, too, used to hate Network Manager. It seemed like
> such an over complication in relation to such things as:
>>
>>
>> /etc/network/interfaces doesn't exist, so I'm not sure how this is
>> supposed to be achieved these days (under debian it's still there, just
>> not active by default).
> The thing that finally broke me in was the utter impossibility of
> setting up a WPA connection without it. It was then easier to learn how
> to live with it than to fight its installation (and, on Debian, all you
> really have to do is uninstall it, and perhaps also avahi, which I still
> hate).
>
> The thing is, network manager brings unity (I know, bad pun) to an area
> that used to diverge so much between the distributions. I can't really
> call that a bad thing. Unlike what its reputation suggests, the global
> configuration isn't so cryptic. Just create a text file under
> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections. Ugly uppercase apart - quite
> straight forward. I'd like the GUI managers to be more consistent, but
> that is really a minor quibble compared to the situation before NM.
>
> Shachar

And what about those of us on embedded systems or others that offer only 
text-based interfaces? I'm trying to solve exactly this problem on a 
BeagleBoard via ssh, and can not use the GUI.