F 17 (64). After update, no network!

Natalie Gross nat101l at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 00:41:30 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Greg Woods <woods at ucar.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 13:09 -0400, Natalie Gross wrote:
>>  Now it works if I bring it up manually via systemctl restart
>> network.service.
>> But it (network) does not start automatically at boot. And I don't
>> have that network icon/applet on the bar to start it with a mouse
>> click.
>
> There are two different services involved. There is NetworkManager
> (which is where the panel icon comes from) and network. You should only
> run one of them. If you want to run the network service, which is more
> command-line and config-file oriented, then just do:
>
> # systemctl disable NetworkManager.service
> # systemctl enable network.service
>
> The latter command is the one that will get the network service started
> at boot time.
>
> Fedora out of the box wants you to run NetworkManager, in which case you
> would use the NetworkManager GUI to configure your devices and don't
> enable or start the "network" service. The simpler (and some say more
> reliable) network service may be fine if you have only one device and no
> WiFi and don't need to change your device configuration very often.
>
> --Greg
>
I would rather use NetworkManager. (I also have a wifi card, currently
not used.)
But attempting to enable or restart NetworkManager.service results in
an error "No such file or directory."


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