Hi Todd; At the risk of beating a dead horse ... On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 23:25 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > William Case wrote: > > It has been reported by someone else as a medium level bug. See: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470477 > > Or see the changelog of NetworkManager-0.7.0.99-3: > > * Mon Mar 09 2009 Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> - 1:0.7.0.99-3 > - Missing ONBOOT should actually mean ONBOOT=yes (rh #489422) > > Bug #489422 is "No network after last NM update" > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/489422 > > > The bug comments gave me the following work around: > > > > The automatic wired network connection can be made to work by doing: > > > > "if and only if the flag ONBOOT in > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 is set to "yes"" > > > > My ifcfg-eth0 file had ONBOOT=no; I changed it to ONBOOT=yes and now my > > Internet connection is made automatically on boot. > > > > I would think that this is more than a medium level concern, > > particularly for new users of Fedora 10. > > Well, the levels aren't really used my many maintainers (though maybe > they are for RHEL bugs, which 470477 is...). But aside from that, the > NM release on Fedora fixes the bug that a missing ONBOOT parameter is > treated differently in NM than it was by the network service. I can't > see how having ONBOOT=no and NM not starting that device could be > construed as an NM bug though. It's perhaps a bug if some tool is > automatically writing the ONBOOT=no into the ifcfg file when it > shouldn't be. I agree completely. The problem seems to be in the NetworkManager Applet. First, there is no manual. Secondly, it seems to lack any ability to affect the function of NetworkManager -- at least at the simplest level. I can't use it to disconnect, if for some reason I might want to (eg. tweaking, playing around, etc.). Even when I use the edit function - "Edit Connections" - all the editable fields are greyed out. To me that is where an ordinary user would think to alter the ifcfg-eth* script. It seems to be just a front end gui for nm-tools which in turn is only a reporting program. Maybe more is coming in the NetworkManager Applet. -- Regards Bill Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.3 Evo.2.24.5, Emacs 22.3.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
