Preview Release & NetworkManager

[John Poelstra]

Bill Nottingham said the following on 04/25/2008 10:09 AM Pacific Time:
> John Poelstra (poelstra at redhat.com) said: 
>> Two days ago I did an anaconda upgrade of latest F8 to Preview Release, 
>> then did an additional update from rawhide.  With F8 I used NetworkManager 
>> exclusively to manage my wired and wireless connections.
>>
>> Is this the expected behavior in F9?
>>
>> 1) Wired ethernet (eth0) does not take precedent over wireless even if 
>> connected during boot time.
>>
>> 2) Wired ethernet, noted as "auto ethernet" is grayed out and cannot be 
>> selected from the panel icon
>>
>> And if this is the expected behavior (which seems like a regression to me) 
>> how am I supposed to enable eth0?
>>
>> I know eth0 is good because I just used it to enable rescue mode when I 
>> lost grub after a failed resume from hibernate... good times!
> 
> What does your ifcfg-eth0 look like?
> 
> Bill
> 

# Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile)
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=00:11:25:86:B0:B0
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=yes