What is the matter with fedora 9?

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:53:37 +0200
fedora <fedora at ayni.com> wrote:

> it introduced a NetworkManager which prohibits networking.

Don't know about the other problems, but for me this makes
networking function just like always:

chkconfig --level 2345 NetworkManager off
chkconfig --level 2345 network on
reboot

That turns off NetworkManager and goes back to the old nasty
stick-in-the-mud networking that actually works :-).

NetworkManager may be good for folks with laptops who flit
about from one hotspot to another, but it is hopeless for
us more ordinary network users who have static IPs or even
DHCP networks initialized at boot time and unchanging after
that. It should never have arbitrarily been made the default.