Description of problem: During Fedora installation, the network adapter got assigned eth0 name and the networking was ok on subsequent boots. However, after a hardware change, the new NIC got assigned the name eth1 and the original eth0 disappeared. Now the network is unreachable, because the network initscript tries to initialise eth0 which is missing and it fails, while eth1 is left untouched. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-8.95-1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install Fedora :) 2. turn off your computer 3. pull out NIC 4. stick in another NIC (possibly one that uses another driver) 5. boot the computer 6. watch the boot messages, try service network restart ... ok, you don't have to mess with your hardware, this can be done virtually by using the same Fedora image under different emulators using different NICs Actual results: a bunch of error messages like "Device eth0 does not seem to be present", network is unreachable Expected results: the new NIC takes the place of the old one, no error messages, network usable Additional info: well, you don't change NICs so often, but it causes problems trying to migrate between different systems (external drive installation) etc.
Using the default NetworkManager setup this should work - long experience has shown that attempting to migrate configs for the old code is not practical.
(In reply to comment #1) > Using the default NetworkManager setup this should work - long experience has > shown that attempting to migrate configs for the old code is not practical. yep, after installing NetworkManager, without any other manual intervention, after the next boot with another hardware, eth2 got created, which was brought up with dhcp and the Internet connection worked out-of-the-box but each new package eats up valuable space in my testing setup :) so, if NetworkManager is the only supported way, and this problem won't be fixed in the "default" scripts, then please change this to RFE - remove the unsupported configuration options and make NetworkManager default
NM *is* the default.
(In reply to comment #3) > NM *is* the default. but I had to install it manually, while /etc/init.d/network i.e. initscripts got installed without my intervention ... to be explicit: [root@kika /]# rpm -qf /etc/init.d/NetworkManager NetworkManager-0.7.1-4.git20090414.fc11.i586 [root@kika /]# rpm -q --whatrequires NetworkManager no package requires NetworkManager [root@kika /]# rpm -qf /etc/init.d/network initscripts-8.95-1.i586 [root@kika /]# rpm -q --whatrequires initscripts kbd-1.15-7.fc11.i586 dhclient-4.1.0-20.fc11.i586 plymouth-0.7.0-0.2009.05.15.1.fc11.i586 mkinitrd-6.0.86-2.fc11.i586 hal-0.5.12-26.20090226git.fc11.i586 openssh-5.2p1-2.fc11.i586
I'm assuming you unchecked every group on install? (Just making sure...)
(In reply to comment #5) > I'm assuming you unchecked every group on install? (Just making sure...) yes, otherwise I wouldn't be allowed to continue due to limited space and in addition, the installer died before finishing ... but this does not change the point - why do I have /etc/init.d/network without requesting it explicitly if /etc/init.d/NetworkManager is the default?
It's installed, it's not activated by default.
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