Problem setting up wired networking

[Timothy Murphy]

On Friday 14 November 2008 13:12:52 Steve Thompson wrote:

> A problem is that for the very simplest of configurations (a system with
> one single hardwired interface that doesn't roam), NM does not work. At
> all. I have a humble collection of about 30 Fedora machines in my
> business; four of them are F9 and the rest are earlier versions. I have no
> Linux laptops at all; nearly all of the several hundred boxes that I have
> managed are of this simple configuration. NM does not work in this
> situation; the hostname never gets set.

I've probably misunderstood completely,
but doesn't it get the hostname from /etc/sysconfig/network ?