Re: Fedora 9 problem with updating / networking?

On Jun 4, 12:49 am, Daffy D. <x66...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:24:13 -0700 (PDT), PriusGeek

<g...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just installed F9 clean on a system with a 3GHz P3 / 3Gb RAM. Install
went OK, but the networking does not start automatically, even though
I specified that in the setup. Also, even when I start it, the YUM
updater never updates.  It finds the updates, but when I select the
"update" button, nothing happens.

Ideas?

Yeah, basically got the same problem, setting from network dialog
don't seem to hold on a reboot. Solved problem by using ifconfig/route
command in a new script in /etc/rc5.d

Like:
vi /etc/rc5.d/S99ResetNet

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.10 up
/sbin/ifconfig eth1 down
/sbin/route add default gw 192.168.2.3

If you use 'yum update' or yumex, that will work for the updates

Hth

D.

Thanks for the tip. I was able to get the updates working using yum at
the command line, but the little GUI applets for update and new
package installs just refuses to actually install anything. They both
seem to find the packages correctly, but whenever I click on the
"apply" or "install" buttons, nothing happens and there are no
messages in the logs AFAIK. Anyone seen this?

I was able to get the Ethernet to work using the network control GUI.
There's a "new" radio button in the config that tells the NIC to be
controlled by the network manager. Once I checked that, eth0 comes up
and all the networking stuff seems happy.

Gray
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