Problem setting up wired networking

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 19:10:32 Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 07:00:38PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > That will be that bug report:
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=413281
> > > See in particular comments #10 and #11 how I eventually forced it to
> > > find correct interfaces as otherwise NM was terminally lost.
> >
> > Progress, of a sort.  Following your lead I renamed ~/.gconf
>
> That sounds somewhat excessive.  In ~/.gconf you possibly have quite
> a bit of other information and not only NM connections.  I have
> thrown away only NM specific parts and restarted.
>
By renaming I can get back anything that is needed.

> > What the !!!!
> > According to the info panel it has an IP address of 10.42.45.1 -
> > when the rest of the lan is 192.168.0.x.  Where the heck did that come
> > from?
>
> Are you connecting to an access point of your neighbour?  With all
> SSIDs around straight from factory that is not unthinkable. :-) If
> not how you configured your router?
>
No, I don't see that at all.  I gave it the ESSID and passphrase for my 
router.  I don't see how that could possibly pick up my neighbour's 
connection.  The info popup definitely named my ESSID.

I've had it for tonight.  Maybe one of us will have a brainwave overnight.

Anne

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