The man pages are pretty sparse. But it often fails, at least here. What are you supposed to do, in order to try again to connect? (Say you know you *have* a connection; your other machines are doing fine...)
There's a launcher that looks like two monitors on a vertical pipe; right-click and get its Properties, and it tells you it runs the command usr/bin/system-config-network. Left-click, give it root's password, and it shows you all sorts of nice GUI stuff including buttons to 'activate' or 'deactivate' your ethX. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it even makes a connection after NM has failed.
Often both fail. Then what?
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:56:55 +0000 (UTC) Beartooth Beartooth@swva.net wrote:
Often both fail. Then what?
Since my systems don't need to randomly connect to different wireless networks, I find the old network stuff works lots better for me than the "improved" NetworkManager. I've done this to all my fedora 9 systems:
chkconfig --level 2345 NetworkManager off chkconfig --level 2345 network on reboot
No network problems at all after that :-).
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