Mike Chambers wrote:
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 10:07 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
I installed F9 on an old computer that only has 256M of RAM. I did a text mode install and it worked fine. One interesting thing is that if you do a text mode install, gdm is apparently not installed. Anyway, when I start up X, the NetworkManager is running but it doesn't enable my wired connection. I've played around with the menus and put in the MAC address but that had no effect. I'm sure I'm missing something simple but I need a hint.
Try running system-config-network and configure your connection there initially, and save. Just don't start the network service. Once it's saved (you may need to reboot) you can try restarting/redoing NM to see if it sees it then. You also need to check the "let NM control it" box as well.
I don't know why but after doing system-config-network it works fine. I didn't change anything but it works.
Thanks,