On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 07:39:17PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
I've just completed an install of a rawhide snapshot,
approximately one week
old. I was not able to configure the network during the install, so I'm doing
it now. Unusually, the wireless network has set up without a problem but the
wired connection is failing to set. The 'OK' remains greyed out.
Do not let NetworkManager to handle your static connections. It
will mess up badly. OTOH it is quite possible that you run into
that bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459017
Is it necessary to give a MAC address during setup?
No.
I confess I don't know
how to get it until I have a connection.
'ip link' will show that but you should not care.
Michal