F9 and NetworkManager?
Mike Chambers
mike at miketc.com
Wed May 28 17:16:28 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 10:07 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
> I installed F9 on an old computer that only has 256M of RAM. I did a
> text mode install and it worked fine. One interesting thing is that if
> you do a text mode install, gdm is apparently not installed. Anyway,
> when I start up X, the NetworkManager is running but it doesn't enable
> my wired connection. I've played around with the menus and put in the
> MAC address but that had no effect. I'm sure I'm missing something
> simple but I need a hint.
Try running system-config-network and configure your connection there
initially, and save. Just don't start the network service. Once it's
saved (you may need to reboot) you can try restarting/redoing NM to see
if it sees it then. You also need to check the "let NM control it" box
as well.
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Mike Chambers
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mikec302 at fedoraproject.org
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