On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 09:39 -0500, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sorry, I misspoke: this is Fedora 12. > > I was able to start the network again, though network manager still > thinks its broken and will in fact break it when I tell it to use > eth0. > > Remind me, what is network manager good for? I'm sure it does > something useful, but so far I have only perceived it as something > that causes trouble. Are you perhaps mixing NM with the old network stuff (ifup, ifdown etc.)? Also, note that NM needs to be told to manage an interface, via system-config-network. People complain a lot about NM, mostly because of the glaring lack of documentation ("it just works" is not a useful statement to make in a man page), but in fact I've found it quite functional. poc PS Remember not to top-post on the list. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines