The mystery of WiFi

[Timothy Murphy]

Rick Stevens wrote:

>> >> IIRC, Fedora - and other distributions -
>> >> tried to bring up the interface <xyz>
>> >> if there was a file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<xyz>.
>> >>
>> >> But this no longer seems to be the case -
>> >> I have an ifcfg-eth0 which is completely ignored
>> >> by "service network restart" and even "ifup eth0".
>> >>
>> >> How does Fedora now decide what interfaces to try to bring up?

> "service network start|restart" depends on having an "ONBOOT=yes" line
> in the ifcfg-eth0 file.  If you can type in "ifup eth0" and the card
> comes up, then you probably have "ONBOOT=no" or no line in the file.

I'm pretty sure I tried "ifup eth0" in this case,
and it didn't work.

One of the many annoying things about WiFi
is the way several programs modify ifcfg-<xyz>.
I don't mind programs like system-config-<whatever> doing this,
after all you are asking for it in such a case,
but I'd really prefer if anyone wants to alter my /etc/files
if they would ask me first, or at least tell me what they have done ...


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