Problem setting up wired networking

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 07:00:38PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > That will be that bug report:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=413281
> > See in particular comments #10 and #11 how I eventually forced it to
> > find correct interfaces as otherwise NM was terminally lost.
> >
> Progress, of a sort.  Following your lead I renamed ~/.gconf

That sounds somewhat excessive.  In ~/.gconf you possibly have quite
a bit of other information and not only NM connections.  I have
thrown away only NM specific parts and restarted.

> What the !!!!
> According to the info panel it has an IP address of 10.42.45.1 - 
> when the rest of the lan is 192.168.0.x.  Where the heck did that come from?

Are you connecting to an access point of your neighbour?  With all
SSIDs around straight from factory that is not unthinkable. :-) If
not how you configured your router?

    Michal