Re: Fwd: Restoring NetworkManager settings

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 11:17 -0800, Alan Evans wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> > The expected scenario here would be to have two connections, "Static
> > eth0" and "Auto eth0".  You'd make the "Static eth0" be autoconnect=no
> > (Uncheck the Connect automatically box in the connection editor), so
> > that only when you wanted it, you could select it.
> 
> Does the expected scenario include not being able to edit settings for
> Auto eth0?

Yes, if you have no system connections defined.  That connection is
read-only in recent releases.

> Like I said, they used to be editable, now they are not.. What I'm
> trying to figure out is, what changed, and how to undo it.

"Auto eth0" never actually was writable, it would discard the changes
you made anyway because it wasn't written out to disk, because there was
no enabled plugin to write it out to disk.  There are better ways to
handle this, but until those are written, the "Auto eth0" is marked
read-only.

If you create another system connection with your distro's normal
network configuration tools, then the "Auto eth0" one will go away.

dan