F10 not connected at start up -
Bob Goodwin
bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Wed Mar 11 19:12:37 UTC 2009
Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 14:34 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
>> I have an F-10 box that does not connect at boot. I believe network
>> manager is completely disabled. It starts in text mode, I enter startx.
>>
>> Fortunately I usually only boot it once a day at the most but it is a
>> bother. I start it as 'bobg' and it wants a password [more than a dozen
>> characters], Then since it's not connected 'firestarter' isn't running
>> and it too wants a password, but since it's not connected 'firestarter'
>> wont start until I bring up system-config-network to activate the
>> connection, but first it wants a password, once that is down I can go to
>> the firestarter menu and start it.
>>
>> This is beginning to bother me and I know it must be something I have
>> misconfigured but haven't found it yet. It just asked for some security
>> updates and I told it ok, enter the password again. That's four times
>> in a few minutes and I haven't asked the computer to do any work yet!
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
> ----
> the default is to have NetworkManager service on and 'network' service
> off and also to boot runlevel 5 so clearly you have been changing things
> since the original installation.
>
> You might want to ensure that 'network' service is set to automatically
> start at your runlevel (you don't say which boot level you are
> setting)...
>
> chkconfig --list network
>
> and I would presume if you are booting runlevel 3, which is supposed to
> have networking turned on by default, the above should show 'on' for
> runlevel 3.
>
> if not, execute either
>
> chkconfig --levels 2345 network on # very explicit
> or
> chkconfig network on # less explicit, uses /etc/init.d/network
> # chkconfig statement to determine
>
> You might want to do similar for 'Firestarter' service to ensure it too
> is automatically started at boot up.
>
> Craig
>
>
>
Both network and firestarter are on for 2345, off for the others.
Bob
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