How is the new networking world supposed to work?

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Sat Apr 12 01:13:23 UTC 2008


Alan wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 01:16 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>>> Since the latest rawhide updates I now don't get a network connection
>>> after
>>> boot. I have to open a shell as root and issue a "ifdown eth0" followed
>>> by
>>> a "ifup eth0" to make the NetworkManager aware that there is a network
>>> out
>>> there. What is the proper way to configure this?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>    Dennis
>>>
>> I have the same problem and restarting NetworkManager is another fix
>> that works for me.
> 
> I have yet to get NetworkManager to use my wireless card.  It does not see
> any configurations, does not give me a way to create them, and general
> acts like the card does not exist.
> 
> wlassistant works fine (until the last gpm braindamage).  The card is
> using the b43 driver with the latest firmware.

Have you tried using system-config-network to configure the adapter, and then 
click the NetworkManager Controlled checkbox?  I'm asking because my own 
wireless card failed to be useful from NM until I did that (in fact it was 
causing NM to crash when the service started).  Now after I did configure it.. 
even if I remove all the configuration NM will still work fine.  I'm unsure 
whether it was a bug and was incidentally fixed, or if the configuration via 
system-config-network did things I'm not reverting (but I don't think this is 
the case).

Anyway, if you haven't tried that yet, configure it with the s-c-n tool then see 
whether NM can handle it fine.

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