Re: Network Manager in F11 Preview
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 11:52 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 11:12 -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote:
> When I installed F11 preview. Network manager configured my
eth0 to
> never be activiated automatically. Since this was the only
NIC on the
> system the result was no network. Easily fixable but not
user
> friendly. I use KDE so I am not sure if this goes against
network
> manager or knetworkmanager. Any thoughts?
People can't have it both ways. Anaconda will write ONBOOT=no
if you
are not installing over the network, and thus your interface
will not be
"autoconnect". If you do install over a network, then
anaconda will
write ONBOOT=yes, and you will get autoconnect. That's the
root cause
of your problem. Not sure how to fix it, because there are
legitimate
reasons for not making all interfaces autoconnect when you
don't do a
network install. Part of that is security; don't bring a
network up
until you really need it, since connecting to a network makes
a machine
less secure.
Not sure how to fix this, it's more of a policy decision at
install-time
than anything technical.
Dan
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I guess the question here is what if I was a "Joe SixPack" user who
didn't know immediately to look in the settings what would I have
done. Without network connectivity it is a little difficult to
research the answer.
At least you can click on the ethernet connection in the applet menu if
you can associate the "two computers with a red X" icon with networking.
That's two clicks and doesn't require jumping into the connection editor
to just get online.
Dan