On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<[email protected]>wrote:

>  On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 01:59 -0700, linux guy wrote:
> > iwconfig lets me set the various parameters of an interface, but how
> > do I start that interface such that the router assigns it an IP and
> > DNS works ?
>
> NM can be configured to activate on boot, without waiting for a login,
> so system-config-network from a console ought to do it. I say "ought to"
> because when I tried it I got a completely different dialogue from the
> usual one, which is disconcerting. I've no idea why that should be.
>
>
>

I got a network connection working.  whew !   I ran system-config-network
from the command line.  DHCP wasn't enabled for eth0.  I enabled it and
wala, I got an IP address and I can ping outside my local network. Yum
update is running right now.
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