On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 22:11 +0100, Rubin wrote:
Hi.
I started the thread. Someone responded that setting HWADDR
in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 might make the problem
disappear.
Not for me.
[cioby@DustPuppy cioby]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:16:6f:5f:ce:99
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ESSID=xxxxxx
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Managed
RATE=
And it did! After setting HWADDR with the MAC for the wireless card,
the
problem has not been encountered since.
It happens mostly on boot for me. It's probably an timing issue.
I don't boot much tho, thanks to suspend.
service network restart;service NetworkManager restart
fixes things for me.
I guess it still is a problem, but it works. Not very nice for mom
and
pops at home trying out a user-friendly linux distro though.
The HWADDR line should be set by the installer / system-config-network,
not by hand so this is just a bug if not already.
--
Cioby