On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 04:51:28PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 04:39:54PM -0500, fred smith wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:33:32PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 12:58:15PM -0500, fred smith wrote: > > > > OK, next dumb question: Now the NM applet says the wired network is "unmanaged". > > > > It WAS, a couple days ago, working via NM, as I could plug in the cable and > > > > the little icon in the top panel went round and round then it connected. > > > > Today it's not doing anything even if I forcefully disconnect wireless first. > > > > I suppose I must have changed something, but again I can't see what that > > > > would have been. > > > > > > > > once again, advice will be appreciated, thanks! > > > > > > In System > Administration > Network, if your adapter is listed, edit > > > its settings and make sure "Controlled by NetworkManager" is > > > selected. If you don't see the adapter that's not ipso facto a > > > problem, but my bet is you will. > > > > Paul, you hit the nail on the head. Thanks for the tip! > > > > Perhaps I can throw out ONE MORE networking question... > > > > I keep seeing this in the output of /sbin/ifconfig: > > > > virbr0 link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 5A:4C:8D:5F:54:EA > > inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > > inet6 addr: fe80::584c:8dff:fe5f:54ea/64 Scope:Link > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:4977 (4.8 KiB) > > > > but I have never configured anything named "virbr0" or even close to it. > > My LAN is not 192.168.122. I don't know where this comes from. Or what > > is the proper way to get rid of it. > > > > I've never encountered anything like it on any other Linux box (of which > > there have been many under my care) so I'm a little nervous about just > > whacking it. > > > > Thanks, once again! > > That's a virtual bridge adapater provided for the benefit of any > virtual guests you might later use. It's normal and safe to ignore, > or IIRC you can simply turn the libvirtd service off to make it > disappear. Once again, Paul, thanks! I assume that's for XEN or KVM guests? Since this is an eeepc I don't think I'll be running any such things on it! :) In fact I'm looking around for services I don't want/need, as I want to keep it fairly tightly closed. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ------------------------------- Romans 5:8 (niv) ------------------------------
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