Problem setting up wired networking
Horst H. von Brand
vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Wed Nov 12 02:41:33 UTC 2008
Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 20:52 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Jesse, I don't care which route we go - NM is fine if we can persuade
> > it to work.
> > All I want is a fixed address when on my home LAN - and I'll accept
> > reserved IP from my router's dhcp if that's easiest - and straight dhcp
> > for the wifi, since that will be used at various locations.
> > Since trying to get the cabled connection working properly (and it's
> > working now, but not on my chosen IP address) I have lost the wifi
> > altogether, so if you can advise me how to start from scratch that
> > would probably be best.
Similar to my needs. I've got a fixed wired address (static, _no_ DHCP) at
work, and use WiFi elsewhere.
> Well, I'd re-edit your ifcfg-eth* files and set them all back to
> NM_CONTROLLED=yes.
No such files here (just ifcfg-lo).
> Also, I'd question why you have an eth1 file, and
> perhaps remove it, if all you have is a wired and wireless. Make sure
> the eth0 file still matches the right MAC address etc..
> Then in NetworkManager you can right click the panel and edit
> connections. There you should be able to define a configuration for
> System eth0 complete with static addressing. This in theory should
> allow it to come up at boot time with this static address and be fine.
No, it doesn't. The static configuration gets lost each time.
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