Restoring NetworkManager settings

[Robin Laing]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Alan Evans wrote:
> 
>> I wanted to temporarily assign static IP settings for eth0, and like a
>> dufus I used system-config-network. Unchecked "Controlled by Network
>> Manager" and entered the desired addresses. This worked fine as far as
>> it went.
> 
> You confirm my experience than system-config-network
> is more or less incompatible with NM.
> 
> My experience is that if NM is running,
> it is not a good idea to run system-config-network.
> 
> In fact, I don't think it is ever a good idea to run system-config-network.
> 
> 
> 
> 

I agree.

Check to make sure that your network device is activated.  When setting 
up F10 on this computer, I found that my network device would keep being 
turned off and then it was greyed out in NM.

-- 
Robin Laing