Problem setting up wired networking

A.J. Werkman AJ.Werkman at digifarma.nl
Fri Nov 14 14:23:29 UTC 2008



Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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 ?
> 
> 

Yes but at install time anaconda fills this using NM. This means you can 
get it right with a manual post install configuration.

And anyhow since F9 anaconda starts NM service by default. So to use 
network service again you always have to manually alter the anaconda result.

Koos.
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