Network Management - probably pebcak needs sorting

[Martin Kho]

On Monday 08 March 2010 17:17:51 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 08 March 2010 16:09:44 Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> > On 03/08/2010 12:06 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Monday 08 March 2010 15:55:45 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > >> On Monday 08 March 2010 14:37:47 Thomas Janssen wrote:
> > >>> Do try the NetoworkManager-gnome (nm-applet). I had a different
> > >>> problem, not solvable with knetworkmanager, but with nm-applet.
> > >> 
> > >> I could try it again, but of course the reason I was trying knetwork
> > >> manager was because NetworkManager-gnome wasn't working.  Still, it's
> > >> worth a try, since I tried to change over before the 4.4.1 update. 
> > >> I'll report back.
> > > 
> > > Is there no way of restarting things like this, without rebooting? 
> > > It's beginning to feel like windows!  AIUI the command 'service
> > > network restart' can't be used if NetworkManager-gnome is to control
> > > it.  Is that right?
> > 
> > service NetworkManager restart
> 
> service NetworkManager restart
> Stopping NetworkManager daemon:                            [  OK  ]
> Setting network parameters...                              [  OK  ]
> Starting NetworkManager daemon:                            [  OK  ]
> [root at anne-laptop ~]# ifup eth0
> 
> Determining IP information for eth0...dhclient(6296) is already running -
> exiting.
> 
> This version of ISC DHCP is based on the release available
> on ftp.isc.org.  Features have been added and other changes
> have been made to the base software release in order to make
> it work better with this distribution.
> 
> Please report for this software via the Red Hat Bugzilla site:
>     http://bugzilla.redhat.com
> 
> exiting.
>  failed.
> 
> I think I'm beaten.
> 
> Just one thought - I have no idea why, but on this laptop eth0 is defined
> as the wireless interface and eth1 is the cabled one.  I didn't do this -
> the setup did - but I'm beginning to wonder whether it's relevant.

... and you're sure your kernel-module is loaded? The right one?

> 
> Anne