Problem setting up wired networking

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 11 November 2008 22:47:53 Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 20:52 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Jesse, I don't care which route we go - NM is fine if we can persuade it
> > to work.
> >
> > All I want is a fixed address when on my home LAN - and I'll accept
> > reserved IP from my router's dhcp if that's easiest - and straight dhcp
> > for the wifi, since that will be used at various locations.
> >
> > Since trying to get the cabled connection working properly (and it's
> > working now, but not on my chosen IP address) I have lost the wifi
> > altogether, so if you can advise me how to start from scratch that would
> > probably be best.
>
> Well, I'd re-edit your ifcfg-eth* files and set them all back to
> NM_CONTROLLED=yes.  Also, I'd question why you have an eth1 file, and
> perhaps remove it, if all you have is a wired and wireless.  Make sure
> the eth0 file still matches the right MAC address etc..
>
> Then in NetworkManager you can right click the panel and edit
> connections.  There you should be able to define a configuration for
> System eth0 complete with static addressing.  This in theory should
> allow it to come up at boot time with this static address and be fine.
>
> As to why your wireless went away, that's a different matter.  Might be
> worth booting a Live image and seeing if it makes any difference by
> having fresh configurations in place.

Referring back to the eth0/eth1 question, running 'service network status' 
gives

Configured devices:
l0 eth0 wlan0
Currently active devices:
lo eth1 wmaster0 wlan0

Thos wmaster0 is something I've not met before.

Anne
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