On Friday 02 January 2009, Gerhard Magnus wrote: >I have a small home LAN that I am starting to upgrade from FC9 to FC10. >As the network is still "hardwired" with ethernet cable and the boxes >all have static IP addresses I would like to continue using the old >network service rather than NetworkManager. > >After installing FC10 on one of the machines without problems, I stopped >and disabled NetworkManager and configured the network using the widget >System -> Administration -> Network from the gnome desktop and filling >in the "DNS" and "Hosts" information as with FC9. But then I made a typo >in editing device etho under the "Devices" tab -- I accidentally typed >in the gateway address instead of 255.255.255.0 in the "Subnet mask" >field. Now whenever I try correcting this from the "network" widget the >field reverts back to what I mistakenly typed in before. This is >apparently why I can't reach the network from this box. > >Is there an easy fix to this -- short of doing the installation over? >Thanks for the help! > >Jerry I think you need to be root to do that and make it stick. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Mal: "Just get us on the ground!" Wash: "That part'll happen, pretty definitely." --"Serenity" -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
