Something is resetting my IP address

[MK Hayes]

When I updated to FC5, I not only lost wireless, but my wired connection is hosed as well.

I set my correct IP address though ifconfig, then restart networking, all is cool for about 30 sec, then I get a gui message saying I'm "connected to the wired network" and networking immediately goes down. I do ifconfig eth0 and it's now set to 169.254.41.97 instead of 192.168..

Some script is running somewhere. HELP!

TIA,
MK

[Sarthan]

Just a tought here , maybe NetworkManager has something todo with it. (if it's running)

NetworkManager is a service that is installed with FC5 to automatically setup your networking , to turn it of type :

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/NetworkManager stop

Then try again with ifconfig to setup your network.

Hope this helps

[MK Hayes]

Thanks Sarthan. Yeah, I turned off NetworkManager, and NetworkManagerDispatcher, and my IP address is now stable. Anyone know where to configure NetworkManager, so I have another choice besides off?