Networkmanager and F8 problem

[Tony Molloy]

On Thursday 22 November 2007 14:54, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 10:28 +0000, Tony Molloy wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have a problem with starting NetworkManager on F8.
> >
> > Hardware : Dell Latitude D600 with a Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 network
> > adapter.
> >
> > Software:    F8 with all the latest updates installed.
> >
> > The network service is disabled. NetworkManager and
> > NetworkManagerDispatcher are enabled. Same as on F7.
> >
> > SELinux is disabled so it's not the problem.
> >
> > During the boot the boot messages say both NetworkManager and
> > NetworkManagerDispatcher start OK.  However when I login there is no
> > network service and when I check I find that the NetworkManager service
> > is not running although the NetworkManagerDispatcher is.
> >
> > If I then start NetworkManager manually with "service NetworkManager
> > start" everything is OK and I can connect to the wifi network.
> >
> > I've even tried putting "service NetworkManager start" in rc.local but it
> > didn't work.
> >
> > Any ideas what's stopping NetworkManager starting at boot.
>
> Although this does not completely explain the boot messages what does:
> chkconfig --list |grep NetworkManager
> return?
> Does it indicate that NM is to run at run level 3 and 5?
>
> --Tony

Yep both NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher  run at runlevels 3 and 
5.



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