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After installing Fedora 10, Network Manager correctly identified my network interfaces as eth0 for wireless and eth1 for wired. However my wired connection used to be my default connection named Auto eth1 so Network Manager would connect on start up and this is the way I prefer.

Since installing Fedora 10 my eth1 connection is now called System eth1 but it is not set to connect automatically. I also cannot change this setting since, when I try to edit my connection, the edit button for System eth1 is greyed out and so not available.

The workaround was easy enough, I just created a new wired connection with exactly the same settings as the System eth1 but set to connect automatically. So now I have entries for System eth1 and Default eth1 that are effectively the same. My point is, why can’t I edit the System eth1, and if that’s the correct set up, what’s the point in this connection?