Confessions of a secret NM user

[Timothy Murphy]

Rick Stevens wrote:

>> Is anyone successfully using the network service + system-config-network
>> with Fedora-8 (updated)?
>> 
>> To be more precise, has anyone found themselves NOT connected with WiFi,
>> and found the problem solved by running system-config-network?
> 
> Yes.  Easily 95% of my systems are hard-wired and use system-config-
> network (well, make that "service network start").  They're all using
> fixed IPs, though.

I don't think "service network restart" and "system-config-network"
are by any means equivalent.
In my experience, one may well work when the other doesn't.
It's a complete gamble, in my experience.