How is the new networking world supposed to work?

[Dan Williams]

On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 01:16 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> Since the latest rawhide updates I now don't get a network connection after 
> boot. I have to open a shell as root and issue a "ifdown eth0" followed by 
> a "ifup eth0" to make the NetworkManager aware that there is a network out 
> there. What is the proper way to configure this?

Which specific version of NM?

What ifcfg-* files are in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts ?

Do any of those files have "NM_CONTROLLED=no" in them?

When you run "/usr/bin/nm-tool" what does it say?

Dan