Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 449980
NetworkManager applet doesn't auto-detect my wired network connections
Last modified: 2008-06-04 14:27:41 EDT
Description of problem: The NetworkManager applet doesn't automatically detect my wired connections. I have two: inbound Internet (eth0), and outbound to my internal network (eth1). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.7.0 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login. 2. Left or right click on NM applet. Actual results: Left click shows my two ethernet cards, grayed out, saying each one is "Unmanaged". If I right click and select Edit Connections, it doesn't show anything under Wired connections. Expected results: NM should auto-detect my wired connections, and that they are up and running, and do something useful with them like show them. Additional info: If the reason NM doesn't show anything is because I am not root, that is stupid and confusing. It should at least show the connections, because they are there, but then give me a reasonable and explanatory error if I do something I can't because I am not root. As it is, it is really confusing; I *think* my network connections are up, but why do they not show up???
Yes, they are "unmanaged" because you've decided not to allow NetworkManager to control those interfaces. NetworkManager only knows about interfaces that you've told it to control. If you'd like NM to control these interfaces, you can mark them as "Controlled by NetworkManager" in system-config-network. If you'd prefer to keep using the static network scripts, you can: sudo /sbin/chkconfig NetworkManager off Hope this helps...
That does help, thank you!