(i think this is sort of related to one of today's earlier posts by a different poster.) i'm experimenting on one of my gateway laptops running f8 x86_64 and, as a test, i used system-config-network (s-c-n) to delete the two interfaces eth0 and wlan0, under the assumption that i could use the same utility to recreate them. maybe not such a good assumption, as it turns out. from lspci, i can see that i have both: * Marvell Technology Group 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller, and * Network Controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [Airforce One 54g] ok, that's reasonable. now if i run s-c-n, the initial screen shows me no currently configurable devices on my system -- exactly what i expected. but if i go to the "Hardware" tab to see the currently available hardware, i see only one entry: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 / Ethernet / eth0 / ok that strikes me as just wrong -- why don't i see the wired interface as well, which is what should correspond to eth0? if i try to create a new "Ethernet" device, i'm shown a choice of the broadcom device. but if try to create a wireless device, i don't see broadcom as an option. that seems backwards. and no matter what i do, i can't seem to recreate my wired interface eth0. have i totally hosed my test system at this point? is there no way to recreate those interfaces as they were before? thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
