NetworkManager & network status

NetworkManager applet is one of the good network status tool i found with my Fedora box. One of the good thing with this tool is, its quiet easy to configure both wirless and wired network through this tool. I faced one slight problem today with my NetworkManager applet which prompted me to write up this blog post. I made some slight adjustments in my network configurations as i want to connect to my friends wireless network. After my job i turned back to my home and tried to connect to my wired network and see a problem with my NetworkManager applet, suddenly it shown me my network is not connected, After some debugging i came accross the nm-tool utility which showed me that my eth0 is disconnected. But the interesting thing is i'm able to browse and login to my chat servers. Whats going wrong with my NetworkManager applet? Hmmm yes i found some debugging commands of NetworkManager which is NetworkManager --no-deamon which throws some input about whats going wrong with the applet. After some googling and debugging i was able to fix the issue. The issue lies with my ifcfg-eth0 script. The NM-CONTROLLED flag is somehow got turned off. I simply changed the value to NM_CONTROLLED=yes Voila!! applet suddenly got the wake up and showed me, Yes I'm ready to serve you!!!