Problem setting up wired networking

[Jesse Keating]

On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 08:43 +0000, Tony Molloy wrote:
> For a wired connection run the network service and disable the
> NetworkManager 
> service.

This is just bad advice.  Unless you need ipv6, or need advanced
networking features such as bridges, or are setting up a headless system
with static networking, NetworkManager is fine for both wireless and
wired.  NetworkManager can have system wide connections configured that
will be brought up at boot time, both dhcp or static.

For the OPs laptop case, NM is even better as you can go from one
location where you're using wireless to another location, plug in a wire
and NetworkManager will automatically attempt to get an address from
that wire and allow you to use the wired network.

There are very few reasons and less each release to revert to the
'network' service.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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