NetworkManager Is Driving Me Crazy!
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Mar 21 12:36:04 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 01:30 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> 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.
>
NM never worked with static address connections. wired and wireless yes
but both using DHCP.
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