Bill Nottingham said the following on 04/25/2008 10:09 AM Pacific Time:
John Poelstra (poelstra(a)redhat.com) said:
> Two days ago I did an anaconda upgrade of latest F8 to Preview Release,
> then did an additional update from rawhide. With F8 I used NetworkManager
> exclusively to manage my wired and wireless connections.
>
> Is this the expected behavior in F9?
>
> 1) Wired ethernet (eth0) does not take precedent over wireless even if
> connected during boot time.
>
> 2) Wired ethernet, noted as "auto ethernet" is grayed out and cannot be
> selected from the panel icon
>
> And if this is the expected behavior (which seems like a regression to me)
> how am I supposed to enable eth0?
>
> I know eth0 is good because I just used it to enable rescue mode when I
> lost grub after a failed resume from hibernate... good times!
What does your ifcfg-eth0 look like?
Bill
# Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile)
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=00:11:25:86:B0:B0
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=yes