NetworkManager Is Driving Me Crazy!

[Rick Bilonick]

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 16:31 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Rick Bilonick wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 02:37 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >>
> >>> I don't think NM supports static addresses yet but soon.
> >>> --
> >> It has partial support in Rawhide. If you create static networks with 
> >> system-config-network, NM will honor them. It hasn't grown a UI to 
> >> create a new one from scratch but that is planned.
> >>
> >> Rahul
> >>
> > 
> > This all misses the point. I've turned NM off and killed everything I
> > can think of yet wlan0 keeps getting activated. How do I stop it from
> > screwing up my static network connection? nm-applet USED TO HAVE a
> > button for a wired network under Fedora 6 and my wireless and wired
> > connections worked together without any problem. Under Fedora 8, the
> > wired connection disappeared, reappeared briefly, and now is gone again.
> > Why are we going backwards?
> 
> Make sure you have "ONBOOT=no" in the
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 file.
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wlan0 is not set to be activated on boot. I will have to set NM not to
come on when the machine boots. Maybe that will help. I would imagine
there are a lot of people who have wireless at home and a wired
connection at the office. It used to work just fine under Fedora 6.

Rick B.