Re: F10: too many Network headaches

2008-12-01 Thread Phil Meyer
Andre Costa wrote: ... First weird symptom: NetworkManager refuses to allow me to edit settings for eth0. It doesn't ask me for any kind of authentication and simply shows all fields disabled. I don't know why it started doing this, because right after I booted for the first time I was able

Re: F10: too many Network headaches

2008-12-01 Thread Jim
Phil Meyer wrote: Andre Costa wrote: ... First weird symptom: NetworkManager refuses to allow me to edit settings for eth0. It doesn't ask me for any kind of authentication and simply shows all fields disabled. I don't know why it started doing this, because right after I booted for the

F10: too many Network headaches

2008-11-30 Thread Andre Costa
Hi, I just installed F10 on my system (replacing -- not upgrading -- a previous F9 installation). In general, installation went by just fine. However, setting up my network has been unbelievably hard. I have a DI-624 router, and I am using static IP (I turned its DHCP server off because it was

Re: F10: too many Network headaches

2008-11-30 Thread Marcelo Magno T. Sales
Andre, Em Dom 30 Nov 2008, Andre Costa escreveu: Hi, I just installed F10 on my system (replacing -- not upgrading -- a previous F9 installation). In general, installation went by just fine. However, setting up my network has been unbelievably hard. I have a DI-624 router, and I am using

Re: F10: too many Network headaches

2008-11-30 Thread lanas
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:47:25 -0300, Marcelo Magno T. Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : It seems that, for using static IP address, it's indeed better to use the old network daemon than NetworkManager. I had the same problem too and have read many, many reports of similar ones on the net.

Re: F10: too many Network headaches

2008-11-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:43:31 -0500 lanas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the good of a new manager if it doesn't do all aspects of the job right ? Yea, I never understood where the insane desire to rewrite everything from scratch came from (making it incompatible in the process). If I were

Re: F10: too many Network headaches

2008-11-30 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:43:31 -0500 lanas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the good of a new manager if it doesn't do all aspects of the job right ? Because it does a very good job for the stuff that's it's currently intended to do. I use NM on my laptops and the old-style network service for

Re: F10: too many Network headaches

2008-11-30 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Andre Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To my surprise, even though I try to set my subnet mask to [1]255.255.255.0, it was setting it to my IP address ([2]192.168.0.100), or sometimes to my gateway address ([3]192.168.0.1). I had to manually go through the files at /etc/sysconfig/network/ to

Re: F10: too many Network headaches

2008-11-30 Thread Andre Costa
Hi Marcelo, On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:47, Marcelo Magno T. Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Andre, Em Dom 30 Nov 2008, Andre Costa escreveu: Hi, I just installed F10 on my system (replacing -- not upgrading -- a previous F9 installation). In general, installation went by just fine.

Re: F10: too many Network headaches

2008-11-30 Thread Richard England
Andre Costa wrote: Hi Marcelo, On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:47, Marcelo Magno T. Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andre, Em Dom 30 Nov 2008, Andre Costa escreveu: Hi, I just installed F10 on my system (replacing -- not upgrading -- a previous

Re: F10: too many Network headaches

2008-11-30 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 15:25 -0800, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: system-config-network refused to let me set the subnet mask and bcast address correctly. I tried several times and even exited and restarted. I finally just emacs-ed /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and then did a