The mystery of WiFi

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 01/01/2008, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> My claim is: when the laptop booted (without NM)
> it did not try to bring eth0 up,
> even though there was a file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 .
>

Perhaps you forgot to turn on the "network" service - in F8 it is off
by default because NM is on by default. You need to turn NM off and
chkconfig network on.