[mythtv-users] Fedora 10 and networking

[John Payne]

John Payne wrote:
> Andrew Allison wrote:
>> On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 13:52 -0700, john wrote:
>>   
>>> On Jan 17, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Stephen Kitchener wrote:
>>>
>>>     
>>>> Hi List,
>>>>
>>>> I have been trying Fedora 10 for mythtv and have run into a problem,  
>>>> I can get
>>>> or rather let the system install and let it use DHCP and all it  
>>>> well, but
>>>> when I try to make it use a fixed IP address, I get some very strange
>>>> results.
>>>>
>>>> It refuses to hold onto the fixed IP and/or the gateway, I have even  
>>>> had it
>>>> working ok for firefox, getting new pages etc, but the network  
>>>> applet saying
>>>> that the machine is disconnected. Very strange.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone seen anything like this ??
>>>>       
>>> I believe you have to get rid of NetworkManager.
>>>
>>> John
>>>     
>> That's one of a couple of issues I've been having with Fedora 10 :-)
>>
>> I removed NetworkManager and have a working dhcp network now, haven't
>> been brave enough to try and configure a static ip again.
>>
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> I've got the same problems with the new MythDora10.21, which uses 
> Fedora10. I removed NetworkManager (learned that with MD5 & Fedora 8), 
> but I find that very often on startup ifconfig eth0 shows everything 
> OK with the correct static IP, but I'm not connected to the LAN and 
> can't ping anything (network unreachable).
> ethtool eth0 also shows 'link detected'.
> Usually a reboot brings everything back, although yesterday it took a 
> power-off to get everything working again.
>
> I've tried various tips relating to the ifcfg-eth0 & network contents, 
> but no definite answers for this issue. I also seem to have remnants 
> of ip6 - I occasionally get an inet6 address as well as the static one.
>
> I installed the latest realtek driver - not sure if the same problems 
> occur with the fedora driver. I need the latest updated driver so I 
> can use wake-on-lan and with that I've often found that although the 
> wakeup works (is network is connected) there is no LAN connection 
> after startup.
>
> John
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Fixed it!
after unsuccessfully trying nearly all the tips I found I finally 
updated NetworkManager (to 
NetworkManager-0.7.0-1.git20090102.fc10.src.rpm), reactivated the NM 
service (and deactivated the network service) and reactivated 
'Controlled by NetworkManager' in the system-config-network applet  and 
everything works -  cold start, reboot and wake-on-lan, with static IP

John