On Thursday 06 August 2009 01:52:38 daniel shi wrote: > what i do now is edit the interface in > system-config-network, save the changes, then activate the interface in > network manager. this works, but somehow is a little inconvenient. If you use Network Manager, this is precisely how it is meant to work, as has been explained several times on the list (you might want to search the archives). In short, the system-config-network utility is used for configuring network devices. Activating them is done from the application that controls their usage --- if the device is controlled by Network Manager (a checkbox in the settings), then only Network Manager can and should activate it. However, if you use network service instead of Network Manager, the checkbox should be off in the settings, and activation should be done via "service network start" in the command line, or automatically on boot. The "activate" and "deactivate" buttons from s-c-n should also work in the latter case, but I never liked them, they always felt somehow too clumsy for my taste. The "edit" button in NM is greyed out because the configuration is (and should be) done from s-c-n, not NM itself. However, I agree that this "edit" button could be made to open s-c-n, which would be an intuitive and good solution. I don't know why this has not been configured like that already. HTH, :-) Marko -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 23:29:40 +0800 daniel shi <yooounet(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > hi guys, > i've installed fedora 10 on my laptop, there is a problem with the > "activate" and "deactivate" button in the system-config-network > 1.5.95, they are grey all the time. system-config-network worked > fine on fedora 8, someone reported a bug > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477879about this problem > on fedora 9. is this still an unfixed bug on f10,or just > because i misconfigured something? > any idea will be appreriated, thanks in advance. Not sure if any of this will help, but some possible ideas to get you going. In Fedora 10, NetworkManager is the default. If you run gnome, you should see a little network icon in the upper right. It probably has a red X through it. Click on it, and a NM dialog asking whether you want to activate the connection should come up. If you go into system->administration->services is NM active? How about network? Only one or the other should be active at a time. Can you configure the hardware from the dialog? You can poke around in /etc/sysconfig/networking and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts to see if you find anything obviously wrong in the configuration. On the other hand, this *could* be a bug. When I ran F10 I didn't have a problem, but you might because of your hardware. If it is, go to http://bugzilla.redhat.com and open a new one for your problem. <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines>

hi guys, i've installed fedora 10 on my laptop, there is a problem with the "activate" and "deactivate" button in the system-config-network 1.5.95, they are grey all the time. system-config-network worked fine on fedora 8, someone reported a bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477879about this problem on fedora 9. is this still an unfixed bug on f10,or just because i misconfigured something? any idea will be appreriated, thanks in advance.