network manager has gone crazy

lee lee at yun.yagibdah.de
Sun Nov 11 00:08:42 UTC 2012


Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> writes:

> lee wrote:
>
>>>>Why is the network manager going crazy and doesn't stick with the
>>>>information I'm giving it, and how do I fix this?  Name resolution going
>>>>down because /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten causes very
>>>>annoying interruptions.
>>>
>>> Do you have a wireless interface? Setting up a wireless connection can
>>> modify /etc/resolv.conf.
>> 
>> No, just two on-board wired ethernet interfaces one of which I turned
>> off.  That couldn't be handled with networkmanager ...
>
> I wonder if you have a file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
> (or similar) that ways your wifi is controlled by NM?
> If so maybe NM would overwrite /etc/resolv.conf
> when it finds there is no WiFi connection?


,----
| [root at yun ~]# find /etc/sysconfig/ -name "ifcfg-*"
| /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo
| /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-em1
| /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-em1
| /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-em1
| [root at yun ~]# 
`----


There's no wireless card installed and has never been with Fedora.

Where does networkmanager keeep it's configuration?  It must be at more
places than only /etc/sysconfig.


-- 
Fedora 17


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