activating ethernet

[Tom Horsley]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:59:49 -0500
"Jack Monflower" <jack.monflower at gmail.com> wrote:

> however, i noticed that currently whenever i turn on the computer, i have to
> go to the administration -> network and specifically "Activate" the network
> ethernet device.

Sounds like you are running NetworkManager. For a server box, the
simplest fix is usually:

chkconfig --level 2345 NetworkManager off
chkconfig --level 2345 network on
reboot

That switches to the traditional "network" service rather than
NetworkManager (which appears to have been designed exclusively
to flit from one wi-fi hotspot to another and will be another
two or three releases getting itself backward compatible with
server type usage :-).