Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ?? -- additional info

2008-08-13 Thread William Case
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 18:50 -0400, William Case wrote: > Thanks very much Jeff; > > On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 11:51 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > [snip] > [snip] > > > > There is no automatic 'undo all the changes I shouldn't have made > > button' when editing configs. Backup...poke your system with

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-13 Thread William Case
Thanks very much Jeff; On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 11:51 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: [snip] > > where is dhclient-eth0.conf exactly? It is exactly at: /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf > I think you should just remove it since I dont think such a file > exists for default operation. Find where it is, and i

Re: [Bulk] Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-13 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:41 AM, William Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > stop the legacy network service (keep it from starting at boot too) > network service is disabled but refuses to unplug. Every time I try to > 'stop' in either the services 'gui' or by command line I get the > following

Re: [Bulk] Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-13 Thread William Case
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 08:13 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:20 PM, William Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > ifcfg-eth0: > # nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller > DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > HWADDR=00:1a:92:e5:dc:47

Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-13 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:20 PM, William Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ifcfg-eth0: > # nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller > DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > HWADDR=00:1a:92:e5:dc:47 > ONBOOT=yes > DHCP_HOSTNAME=CASE > NM_CONTROLLED=no > TYPE=Ethernet > #DNS1=192.168.1.1 > Number 1 pr

Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-12 Thread William Case
Hi Jeff; I would appreciate the help getting things back to normal. On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 15:05 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Jeff Spaleta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > I missed the original thread detailing how you munched your NM > config..

Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-12 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Jeff Spaleta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I missed the original thread detailing how you munched your NM config..ill > need to go back and read it. But quick answer for now on how you can work > around this until i understand how you screwed up your NM config: >

Re: Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-12 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:55 AM, William Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shouldn't I be able to make commandline adjustments to network > configurations (for ill or good) and still get NetworkManager to > continue to operate, on my machine at least? If I made mistakes, > shouldn't I, none-the-l

Fixing or removing NetworkManager ??

2008-08-12 Thread William Case
Hi; Last week I was messing around with my network and Internet connections and managed to break NeteworkManager. See thread "Messed up my ISP/Networkmanager connection !?" Aug 5. Since I couldn't get it fixed, I stopped and disabled the NetworkManager service. I now find that many of my gnome