Bug 600041

The default installation includes NetworkManager, enabled by default. If you choose to remove or disable that, you need to enable the network service.

Wrong. NetworkManager does not provide a functional interface. This is a bug.

(In reply to comment #1)
> The default installation includes NetworkManager, enabled by default. If you
> choose to remove or disable that, you need to enable the network service.    

This is a poor choice if NetworkManager cannot provide an interface that is functional useable w/o X. This is an issue that, if not fixed, should be appropriately documented.

Huh?

NetworkManager does work just fine without X; it even provides a commandline tool.

Did you remove NetworkManager, or disable it? If you didn't, and it's running, please attach your ifcfg file.

Was your install via DVD, with no networking during the install?  If so, it sounds like bug #498207

Install was via the netboot cd. NetworkManager has been uninstalled and reinstalled at this point with the bypass removed. After reinstall NetworkManger brings up the interface as expected.

And just for the curious, the ifcfg-eth0 file:

# Intel Corporation 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper)
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
DNS1=192.168.1.3
HWADDR=00:0C:29:6E:1D:0D
IPADDR=192.168.1.68
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=Yes
NAME=Network

It's presently on my test network whilst I make it work.

What do you mean "bypass removed" ?  Was NetworkManager not a part of your initial package set?

(In reply to comment #8)
> What do you mean "bypass removed" ?  Was NetworkManager not a part of your
> initial package set?    

It was included, but not working on startup - so I bypassed it by using chkconfig to enable networking.

OK... assigning to NetworkManager, then.

Ok, based on comment #6 it seems you have NetworkManager enabled and it works correctly after having re-installed it.  If you're up for testing this again on a separate machine, when the problem occurs, can you:

1) grab /var/log/messages
2) post all the ifcfg-* files from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

and we'll take a look and see what's going on.

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