From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; U) Opera 7.23 [en] Description of problem: Whenever I select or deselect a device in one profile, it is selected or deselected in all profiles. This means that profiles are pretty much useless (unless I set up the links in /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles manually). This seemed such a major bug, I double-checked by moving aside my /etc/sysconfig/networking directory and restarting (this caused a crash, so I did mkdir for that directory, which then allowed me to recreate my config from scratch but only confirmed the bug described above). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.3.10-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Tick or untick a device in one profile. 2. Save the settings. 3. Switch to another profile. The change will have also been made to this profile. Looking at the hard links in /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles confirms that this is really happening. Actual Results: The activation/deactivation of devices in profiles should be independent (especially when the devices are network logical copies of each other, which the manual says should not be able to be activated in the same profile!) Expected Results: The settings in different profiles should be different. Additional info: This tool seems badly broken which made me wonder if it's something that I'm doing, but since removing the whole config and restarting gave the same results I'm reporting as a bug. As an example of another problem, if I copy a device (to get a logical network copy), the corresponding file isn't created in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, so I then can't activate the device.. .
I found that I must create a default profile for each case (ie. one home, one office). Using the default profile for "office", for example, did not work and I saw the same thing you did. IMO, the UI behaviour is not quite as expected, in my opinion.
*** Bug 122856 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 85651 ***