Network startup on IBM Thinkpad
Carlos Hendson
skyclan at gmx.net
Sat Jan 10 11:49:34 UTC 2004
Is the system service "network" enabled at the runlevel you're booting
to?
>From console type the following to show which runlevels are enabled:
/sbin/chkconfig --list network
If network is off for the runlevel you wish to use type:
/sbin/chkconfig --level <insert runlevel here> network on
HTH.
CH
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 08:53, Matthew Wilson wrote:
> Hi John
> I've had the same issue since upgrading with a Surecom PCI NIC on a
> homebuilt deskstop. It seems that the network card just isn't being
> brought up: ifup eth0 as root and all is fine. However why this isn't
> happening automatically I don't know. In both
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 and
> .../profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0 I have ONBOOT=yes. Anyone know if
> there is a new config file in FC1?
>
> cheers
> Matthew Wilson.
>
> On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 17:55, John Ellenberger wrote:
> > Have been running Fedora on an older thinkpad (600X) since its release
> > using a 3COM PC-Card networking card. After a few updates I am
> > running into problems with the network not starting up properly. If I
> > do a normal unattended reboot everything appears to come-up normally
> > but the network isnât functioning (canât resolve/ping anything beyond
> > localhost). If I do a hard shutdown and go through the file check
> > sequence everything works. The machine is usable but it is pretty
> > annoying (and dangerous) to always have to crash it when Iâm
> > rebooting.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any ideas what is going on here? Is there a way to force the network
> > to start when it comes-up without properly initializing?
> >
> >
> >
> > John
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