Re: NM probs under Fedora 10

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 19:46 -0500, egc wrote:
> Greetings -
> 
> With EOL for Fedora 8 (which I have running on a number of machines),
> I decided to take one of them and try a clean install of the latest
> and greatest from Fedora (10 - Cambridge). After some fiddling, I got
> network up and running (standard RealTek NIC, fixed ip...), but
> something isn't letting NM play nice with my system. By default, I
> didn't install NM at all. However, if I grab it and the dependencies
> from yum repos, install it,  I immediately lose networking, even
> though I didn't tell the system to use NM to manage anything!
> 
> I can confirm that its something related to NM since as soon as I
> uninstall it (and related dependencies), networking pops right back
> on.

When NM is installed, is it turned on? 'ps ax | grep Network' will tell
you if the "NetworkManager" process is running.

When it doesn't work, can you provide /var/log/messages?  That would
help debug what exactly is going wrong.

Thanks!
Dan

> I'm not entirely new to GNU/Linux, but  usually don't fuss with
> networking much, since it generally works. However, I am somewhat
> concerned by the behaviour I just described above. Could someone more
> learned about NM (and that is most folks, at this point) give me some
> guidance about what to look for/check?
> 
> Thanks very much in advance...apologies if this is below the usual
> level of discussion, but this is my first issue concerning NM.
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