After using the Network Connection dialog to define a fixed address on my F10 box and rebooted, I now have no network connection - it was fine previously. I've used the Network Connection dialog to put things back the way they were previously (device eth0 only), and rebooted.

Now, the Network Configuration dialog shows eth0 as inactive, and I can activate it and save changes, but on next reboot, eth0 is again inactive. I have a wired connection which reports a MAC address the same as the hardware address reported by ifconfig. This is not a home network issue, I have another machine on the same router which has network connectivity.

Can anyone assist with restoring a network connection on the F10 box?

Edit:
I've just seen thread "static ip on F10 box" on the Fedora forum - apparently I'm not alone, here. I had no problems defining a static IP on my F7 box, using Network Configuration, but it's broken on F10?

you can try to install wicd, it also handels wired interfaces.

Just been looking more into this. I can use Network Configuration to activate eth0 - on reboot, eth0 is inactive, even though /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 specifies ONBOOT=yes, then
# service NetworkManager stop
# service network restart
and network connectivity is back.

Very disappointing that something that worked on F7 (and apparently F8 and F9) now does not. Can someone without these hassles with F10 publish their ifcfg-eth0 file contents for me?

I have this problem fixed, as illustrated in http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...f10-box-686523 Many thanks to hans21 for this solution! I edited ifcfg-eth0 as per the provided example (adapted for my hardware and ip addresses) and everything now works as required. It only took about six reinstalls of F10 to reach this point, but at least, I now know how to do it!...

There seems to be a problem with F10's implementation of NM, that did not exist with F7's implementation (the latest version I'm familiar with). With F7, NM creates ifcfg-eth0:1 when a static IP address is defined, and network connectivity is fine. On F10, NM also creates ifcfg-eth0:1, but network connectivity is lost.

F10's NM appears broken. I'll be editing the appropriate files on my Fedora box when I install F10, rather than relying upon NM to do that editing for me.

Was NM tested prior to F10's release?