I have a laptop with both a working wireless interface and a working ethernet wired interface. Normally, I run wireless.
On Fedora 9, if I plug into the wired interface, it is brought up also so I now have both the wired and wireless interfaces enabled. Fortunately, both interfaces are on the same (sub) network so routine does not get screwed up. This does not happen on Fedora 8. On Fedora 8, when I plug in the wired interface, the wireless interface is disabled and the wired interface is enabled. Conversely, when I unplug the wired interface, it is disabled and the wireless interface is enabled. The way things work under Fedora 8 is how I expect things to work. However, there may be good reasons for how things work in Fedora 9. A related "is this how it should work" problem is plugging in a new network interface. When the system comes up with the "new" interface, NM enables the (wired) interface. This is NOT what I expected. However, the only way I see around this right now is: - either before shutting down to install the new interface or after doing a single user boot, make sure to have a ifcfg-ethX file with at least NM_CONTROLLED=no specified. Is this how things should work? Granted, most users adding NICs will understand what is happening and take the appropriate action ... but still, is this the way things should work? Gene _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
