Eth0 not active at startup

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 09:35 +0100, Bob Latham wrote:
> "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Because in F9 the network is managed by Network Manager (and Network
> > Manager Dispatcher) which is a different set of scripts. Presumably the
> > OP's NM config wasn't set up to manage the eth0 interface.
> 
> > If you click on the System->Administration->Services menu in Gnome,
> > you'll see NM at the top and network farther down. It's OK to use one or
> > the other, just don't mix them.
> 
> When I examined the above I found that..
> 
> NetworkManager              on
> NetworkManagerDispatche     off
> network                     off
> 
> I wasn't sure what to do so I tried...
> 
> 
> Christopher Mocock <chris at wavestore.com> wrote:
> 
> > I had the same problem the other day and a helpful poster informed me 
> > that I had to run:
> 
> > chkconfig network on
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Anyway, that did the trick for me.
> 
> Yes, it fixed mine too. I then looked and found it had switched on
> "network" in the above. I don't know if just switching that on would have
> done the trick.

They're just two ways of doing the same thing. However I would still
advise turning NM off. It's not causing any grief right now because it
isn't managing your eth0 interface, but all the same ...

poc