I've just installed the Preview of Fedora 9 on a desktop scale PC that was previously running Fedora 8. This desktop PC utilizes a wired network ONLY.
During the install I answered all of the network questions as was expected (i.e. Are we to use DHCP or Static - I picked static etc.) including the DNS entries, Gateway entry. All of the network worked until I booted after applying 652 updates (su - root; yum -y update). After that reboot I could only reach locations that were defined in my hosts file. This pointed me to look at resolv.conf and alas there were no entries in resolv.conf only the message '# generated by NetworkManager, do not edit!'. I listened to that message as issued the system-config-network command and proceeded to update the DNS entries, performed a save, and then issued the following 2 commands: /etc/init.d/network stop then /etc/init.d/network start. After doing that I saw that the DNS were once again empty. I 'corrected' this mess by starting webmin and stopping NetworkManager and NetworkManager Dispatcher and changing the parameter so they would not start at boot. Once again did a system-config-network updating the DNS entries. Restarted the network and now all is well. My questions are: Why is Network Manager messing with my wired network? If Network Manager has been updated so that it will work with a wired network, must it be DHCP? And maybe this is a Fedora question, but why can't I chose if I want Network Manager to do my network configuration? TIA, Gene Poole _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
