FC9 and NetworkManager

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Apr 28 04:02:40 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 10:35 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 19:25 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
> > First NetworkManager fails to come up at boot. One needs to restart the
> > service.
> > 
> > NetworkManager doesn't work with static ip. After fc9 desktop install
> > with a stacic ip I disabled network service and enabled Network manager.
> > I get system eth0 and auto ethernet in the nm-applet. system eth0
> > connects but can't get to the internet seems the nameservers are missing
> > and the broadcast is 0. With system-config-network under DNS the values
> > are always missing even when I enter them and save. /etc/resolv.conf is
> > empty.
> > 
> > Why does nm-applet have both system eth0 and auto ethernet?
> 
> I presume the intent is that "system eth0" is for a static IP and "auto
> ethernet" is for NM-controlled DHCP.
> 
> So far (with F8), I haven't been able to get the "system wlan0" to
> connect wirelessly with the network I defined (hidden SSID, WEP, DHCP),
> but the auto connection works fine for the same network.  (Haven't
> tested all that recently, either, though.)

Hmm; would be interesting to see ifcfg-wlan0 then...  and to compare it
with what's in GConf for the auto connection.

Dan





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