ethX activation at boot problem, primarily with laptops

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 08:48 -0500, Xavier Toth wrote:
> We have a number of laptops where the network is not activated at boot
> as specified by he configuration. We also saw this on a desktop box
> and replaced the network card which resolved the issue. Are others
> experiencing this problem and if so is there a solution/workaround?

Is this with F9?  What's the output of:

chkconfig --list | grep NetworkManager
chkconfig --list | grep network

Do you have any ifcfg-* files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ ?

If you do, does the file for your network card contain ONBOOT=yes ?

Dan