Description of problem: With a newly configured interface on can find in a corresponding /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (say) line which says 'NM_CONTROLLED=' and its "Controlled by NetworkManager" box on GUI is unchecked. Despite of that such interface is actually claimed by NetworkManager. After that box is checked, results saved, the box unchecked back and results saved again one gets 'NM_CONTROLLED=no' and _then_ NetworkManager indeed disregards that interface so it can be handled by other means. I could not find a documentation for 'NM_CONTROLLED' variable. Maybe anything but an explicit "no" is equivalent to "yes"? system-config-network seems to assume otherwise but results are not good. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-network-1.5.10-1.fc9 (and others) How reproducible: always
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 438902 ***
First this is marked as a duplicate of another bug, where a connection is rather tenuous, and then the other gets closed as NOTABUG (which is a HUGE stretch on its own). On the top of it an option to REOPEN bugs apparently vanished. Do I have to submit that once again?
So what is exactly your problem here? s-c-networking having as default NM_CONTROLLED='no' or NetworkManager's default 'yes' (yes you're right about that NM takes control over every device that doesn't have NM_CONTROLLED='no' in ifcfg-* file).
> So what is exactly your problem here? The problem, hardly mine, is that s-c-n shows that a device is not controlled by NM (the corresponding box unchecked) while the opposite is true. That you can force in some circumstance that status and its graphical representation to agree only misleds more. > NM takes control over every device that doesn't have NM_CONTROLLED='no Apparently s-c-n has a different opinion here, at least in what it displays, and hence the issue.
*** Bug 464884 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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