Problem setting up wired networking

[Tony Molloy]

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.
>

Don't know about you but I have never had NetworkManager bring up wired 
connections with static IP addresses correctly on boot. I works fine for 
wireless dhcp addresses.

Regards,

Tony

> 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.