What is 'auto ethernet' in nm-applet (F9)?

[Neal Becker]

Phil Meyer wrote:

> Phil Meyer wrote:
>> ...
>> 1.   eth0 is grayed out and unusable
> 
> A bit more info here.
> All of my users move their home directory skeletons to each new system,
> including .g*
> 
> Running gconf-cleaner and logging out and back in again allows eth0 to
> appear!
> 

In my experience so far, in sys-net-config, choosing both 'start on boot'
and 'manage with NM' results in non-working and greyed out.