On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 22:11 +0100, Rubin wrote: > Hi. > > I started the thread. Someone responded that setting HWADDR > in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 might make the problem > disappear. Not for me. [cioby@DustPuppy cioby]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. ONBOOT=no USERCTL=yes IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes TYPE=Wireless DEVICE=eth1 HWADDR=00:16:6f:5f:ce:99 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK= DHCP_HOSTNAME= IPADDR= DOMAIN= ESSID=xxxxxx CHANNEL=1 MODE=Managed RATE= > And it did! After setting HWADDR with the MAC for the wireless card, the > problem has not been encountered since. It happens mostly on boot for me. It's probably an timing issue. I don't boot much tho, thanks to suspend. service network restart;service NetworkManager restart fixes things for me. > I guess it still is a problem, but it works. Not very nice for mom and > pops at home trying out a user-friendly linux distro though. The HWADDR line should be set by the installer / system-config-network, not by hand so this is just a bug if not already. -- Cioby -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
