Re: F10 wireless question

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 04:51:28PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 04:39:54PM -0500, fred smith wrote:
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:33:32PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 12:58:15PM -0500, fred smith wrote:
OK, next dumb question: Now the NM applet says the wired network is "unmanaged".
It WAS, a couple days ago, working via NM, as I could plug in the cable and
the little icon in the top panel went round and round then it connected.
Today it's not doing anything even if I forcefully disconnect wireless first.
I suppose I must have changed something, but again I can't see what that
would have been.

once again, advice will be appreciated, thanks!

In System > Administration > Network, if your adapter is listed, edit
its settings and make sure "Controlled by NetworkManager" is
selected. If you don't see the adapter that's not ipso facto a
problem, but my bet is you will.

Paul, you hit the nail on the head. Thanks for the tip!

Perhaps I can throw out ONE MORE networking question...

I keep seeing this in the output of /sbin/ifconfig:

virbr0 link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 5A:4C:8D:5F:54:EA
inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::584c:8dff:fe5f:54ea/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:4977 (4.8 KiB)

but I have never configured anything named "virbr0" or even close to it.
My LAN is not 192.168.122. I don't know where this comes from. Or what
is the proper way to get rid of it.

I've never encountered anything like it on any other Linux box (of which
there have been many under my care) so I'm a little nervous about just
whacking it.

Thanks, once again!

That's a virtual bridge adapater provided for the benefit of any
virtual guests you might later use. It's normal and safe to ignore,
or IIRC you can simply turn the libvirtd service off to make it
disappear.

Once again, Paul, thanks!

I assume that's for XEN or KVM guests? Since this is an eeepc I don't
think I'll be running any such things on it! :) In fact I'm looking around
for services I don't want/need, as I want to keep it fairly tightly closed.

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