No eth1 wireless

[Timothy Murphy]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> When I try to activate eth1, I get this
> inappropriate error:
> Determining IP information for eth1... failed; no link present.  Check
> cable?
> 
> Why does it think that there should be a cable? 

Because it is badly written.

I would look in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
and see if ifcfg-eth1 is reasonably correct.

Some Fedora program or programs re-write these files
in a completely idiotic way.

Fedora WiFi is not very good.

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