F10: too many Network headaches

[Jim]

Phil Meyer wrote:
> Andre Costa wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> First weird symptom: NetworkManager refuses to allow me to edit 
>> settings for eth0. It doesn't ask me for any kind of authentication 
>> and simply shows all fields disabled. I don't know why it started 
>> doing this, because right after I booted for the first time I was 
>> able to edit it. Later on I disabled SELinux, don't know if this is 
>> related somehow. This is specially annoying because I can't configure 
>> DNS servers this way, and must always edit /etc/resolv.conf manually.
>
> One F10 system installed recently needed a fixed IP, so I gave it one 
> during the install.
> NetworkManager works just fine in this case.
>
> Here is a /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 that works:
>
> # Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet
> # Faked to protect the inno^H^H^H^H company
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=static
> BROADCAST=10.1.49.255
> DNS1=10.1.10.41
> DNS2=10.1.10.42
> GATEWAY=10.1.49.1
> HWADDR=00:17:a4:77:BB:14
> IPADDR=10.1.49.205
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> ONBOOT=yes
> DOMAIN="mydomain.com"
>
Heres a working one.
In your system-config-network  uncheck the box about NetworkManager and 
reboot.
Are you sure about the GATEWAY=   ???

DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.1.254
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
HWADDR=00:16:EC:69:37:55
DNS1=12.207.235.29
DNS2=12.207.232.41
DNS3=208.67.222.222
IPV6INIT=no
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes