Preview Release & NetworkManager

[John Poelstra]

John Poelstra said the following on 04/25/2008 07:22 AM Pacific Time:
> Two days ago I did an anaconda upgrade of latest F8 to Preview Release, 
> then did an additional update from rawhide.  With F8 I used 
> NetworkManager exclusively to manage my wired and wireless connections.
> 
> Is this the expected behavior in F9?
> 
> 1) Wired ethernet (eth0) does not take precedent over wireless even if 
> connected during boot time.
> 
> 2) Wired ethernet, noted as "auto ethernet" is grayed out and cannot be 
> selected from the panel icon
> 
> And if this is the expected behavior (which seems like a regression to 
> me) how am I supposed to enable eth0?
> 
> I know eth0 is good because I just used it to enable rescue mode when I 
> lost grub after a failed resume from hibernate... good times!
> 
> John
> 

Another data point... booting the F9 Preview Live CD everything works as 
expected.  Could this be stale/bad/unfortunate settings that got rolled 
forward from F8?

If so how should we fix or change this?

Thanks,
John