[lug] GUI network interface difficulty

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:13:21 -0400
Gordon Golding <gordongoldin at aim.com> wrote:

> 
>  On FC11 the GUI network interface is being cranky.
> 
> I needed a larger boot drive on a data server.? To mitigate downtime,
> I created it and got it all ready on a different machine and swapped.
> 
> Afterwards, on both machines:
> 
> They booted auto DHCP, the network GUI showed the eth0 entry but
> would not ungray the activate/deactivate, and in the edit, wouldn't
> ungray DHCP settings.
> 
> They show a pan0 ethernet device, which I can't delete.
> 
> I fussed with the first one, including stuff like probing for the
> real card and hand-editing the device address and deleting the
> ifcfg-eth* entries, and saving the config over and over again and
> rebooting.
> 
> Finally, I could add a new ethernet entry, and it ungrayed the
> activate/deactivate.
> 
> I've tried all this on the second one and it still won't give me the
> activate/deactivate.

Check the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file. 
See if there are old entries for the hardware you have currently. 

kevin
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