Problem setting up wired networking

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 11 November 2008 17:00:50 Jesse Keating wrote:
> 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, system-config-network worries me.  The hardware tab tells me that my 
wired connection, Realtek 8101E, is eth1, but the devices tab says that it is 
eth0.  I see there is a network script for ifcfg-eth0, but not eth1, so I 
guess that's the correct (as well as logical) one.

Unless you have some ideas on something that I can manually edit to deal with 
this, I guess I need to file a bug.

Anne
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