Network issues with F8

[Michael Wiktowy]

On Nov 22, 2007 1:54 AM, Tod Merley <todbot88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 21, 2007 5:16 PM, Michael Wiktowy <michael.wiktowy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am having some very strange network setup issues with F8.
> My tendency, anymore, with the huge distributions such as Fedora or
> Ubuntu is to leave the install as close to the original as possible
> (as it is out of the box - so to speak).  So, you might try re-doing
> the Live CD install this time leaving Network manager alone but
> specifying a static IP on the Ethernet interface during the install or
> by using "System > Administration > Network".

Thanks for the response.

I know the steps needed to set up static IPs and the steps you
suggested are the steps I followed and have done a bazillion times
since before Fedora existed. However, leaving NetworkManager in place
is not possible since it is a known issue that NM will clobber any
manual settings (including those introduced by system-config-network)
that you do unless you disable it. They are mutually exclusive systems
for handling network config.

Hopefully this changes soon but there does not seem to be a GUI way
for NM to handle static IPs in F8 (AFAIK, they devs consciously left
that out just to get the new NM infrastructure out the door for F8 and
intend to add it in when it is available). You might be able to dig
into the guts of NM and make it do so but at that point it makes sense
to just use the old style of GUI config. Unfortunately, I am
experiencing issues with that.