new FC10 install - networking quit

[joe cipale]

I put FC 10 on my laptop (AMD 64-bit Turion). Initially the ethernet card
was detected and I could download/install/check the status of other hosts
on my network

Suddenly after I configured the login screen, the eth0 port is coming up
inactive. I can go into the Network Config screen and set the port from
'Inactive' to 'Active', but when I logout, the device is set to inactive
once again.

This, besides being very frustrating, is impacting my abiltiy to establish
NFS mountpoints. The ifcfg-eth0 file looks normal:
# Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=00:e0:b8:ea:35:46
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
IPV6INIT=no
NM_CONTROLLED=no
TYPE=Ethernet

Any ideas of how to clear this up?

Thanks...

[Jack Beckitt-Marshall]

Have you tried upgrading to Fedora 11?

[Moe Trin]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.comp.os.linux, in article

<yMxEm.52046$q07....@newsfe30.ams2>, Jack Beckitt-Marshall wrote:

>joe cipale wrote:

>> I put FC 10 on my laptop (AMD 64-bit Turion). Initially the ethernet
>> card was detected and I could download/install/check the status of
>> other hosts on my network
>>
>> Suddenly after I configured the login screen, the eth0 port is coming
>> up inactive. I can go into the Network Config screen and set the port
>> from 'Inactive' to 'Active', but when I logout, the device is set to
>> inactive once again.

Sounds like one of the "let me help you - I know what you really want
to do" helper applications. Isn't it just like windoze?

>> The ifcfg-eth0 file looks normal:

What about the rest of the configurations - /etc/sysconfig/network
for example (there's a "NETWORKING" variable that can screw things up
mightily). Does '/sbin/ifconfig -a' show anything

>> Any ideas of how to clear this up?

Look at /etc/rc.d/init.d/network and see what files/conditions it's
looking for. The scripts are trying their best to guess what may be
useful to you, and hiding as much technical information from the user
to avoid scaring him. When it works, it's OK, but if anything goes
wrong, they want to avoid giving any useful hints of why.

>Have you tried upgrading to Fedora 11?

I don't think this has anything to do with F10 verses F11 - it's
another of the overly helpful programs that make more work for
users who aren't MSCEs. The windoze wannabe crap that's been added
makes it necessary to add helper programs that guess what might be
useful to you. Like the assholes who ignore statically configured
interfaces, and overwrite /etc/resolv.conf with useless data because
you didn't configure windoze registry emulation files. I finally
managed to get a Fedora 11 install working by simply disabling the
brass plated bells and whistles networking script and replacing it
with a ten liner stolen from a Red Hat 6.2 install.

Old guy