My first impression of Fedora Core 7

Recently, I’ve got myself upgraded to the Fedora Core 7 from the old Fedora Core 3 for my office PC. The Fedora Core 7 definitely gives me much better usability, better GUI, better navigation. But one thing to my surprise, I don’t get the networking part working quite right. I’ve used the network manager (as shown in the picture, that can be selected under System menu -> Network) to set the network card configuration but after restarting or activating, the network interface card gives me the correct network IP address, but  no the default route. Although the default has been set correctly using the network manager as shown in the attached screen. So, what could have gone wrong, a bug in Fedora Core 7. For the time being, every time I restart my machine, I’ve gotta fall back to my old method, the method that I’m so used to, i.e to use the command line to reissue the network IP address setting and also the adding the default route as follows:

ifconfig eth0 10.10.10.252 netmask 255.255.255.0

route add default gw 10.10.10.254 

Anyone  facing similar problem? I’ll try to look for solution for this. It’s a bit inconvenient that every time I have to reissue the command. Although I could have added in into the /etc/rc.d/rc.local for the two lines, but I feel the latest version of Fedora Core 7 shall have taken care of this via the GUI, which shouldn’t leave much hassle for non-power users. I hope I could find some solutions for the patching if possible.

Anyway, another thing that I like about the Fedora Core 7, it allows to setup the ADSL broadband by using the GUI, which is very much easier to do with the much older version that I have to edit a shell script.