Mess in network

[Rick Bilonick]

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 12:22 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
> I have a router with two NIC's.
> After this morning updates, definition of network interfaces was
> garbled, I found etho.bak and eth1.bak in addition to eth0 and
> eth1....but eth0 and eth1 were not activated at boot time, as they
> were defined as getting address from a DHCP server.
> therefore no internet connection and no DHCP.
> I had to reconfigure eth0 and eth1 by hand, delete *.bak files and
> restart system
> 
> Anybody else with same problem???
> 
> -- 
> Antonio Montagnani
> Skype : antoniomontag
> 
I used yum to install the latest Fedora 8 updates yesterday (I update
every few days). Upon re-booting the laptop this morning at the office,
I noticed that there was no eth0, only eth0.bak (there is a wlan0 and
now a wlan0.bak). Also, now I CANNOT edit any Device settings via
system-config-network as root. I can click the buttons on/off etc. but
it will not let me save anything. Not sure what is preventing editing
(I've disabled NetworkManager and killed nm-applet and wpa-supplicant.)
I am able to connect to the wired network (and wireless networks).

I've also noticed that now, for the first time in Fedora 8,
NetworkManager includes a button for wired network (always had this in
Fedora 6 before updating to Fedora 8).

Rick B.