eth0 becomes inactive after reboot in fc6?

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

On Wednesday 11 April 2007 16:48:53 Hongwei Li wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed fc6 on a P4 1.8GHz pc. The installation went smoothly, no
> any error. After installation, it looks all are working normally: network,
> web, ssh, iptables, etc.
>
> Later, I reboot it after updating the available packages (shown on the
> screen automatically), the network card eth0 becomes inactive.
> I have to manually go: System -- Administration -- Network
> then click Activate, and File -- Save.
> After that, everything works if I don't restart the system. Once I restart
> it as it was remineded when I click File -- Save, then it becomes inactive
> again.
>
> I checked the device setting, the box "Active device when computer starts"
> is checked, but the other 2 boxes are not. It uses static ip address.
>
> The network card is Intel Corp 82801BA built in the motherboard. No other
> network card installed.
>
> Can somebody help me to solve the problem?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Hongwei Li

Did you take a look at the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0? 
Something strange there? Is the line "ONBOOT=yes" there?

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