F10 not connected at start up -

[Bob Goodwin]

Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 18:20 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
>> Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>> Bob - you're making this like pulling teeth.
>>>
>>> Is NetworkManager turned on or off at boot?
>>> chkconfig --list NetworkManager
>>>
>>> 'shows a number of references to NetworkManager. I'm not sure what they
>>> mean or why they are there' ... Crystal ball cloudy, sorry, perhaps you
>>> want to post them to the list so we have half a chance at diagnosing.
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> It is turned on for 2 3 4 5 and off for the rest.  I hope that means 
>> it's on at boot. It is on this F-9 computer. 
>>
>> This is what I see in /var/log/messages.  It's not this computer so I 
>> have to transfer stuff to keep the thread from breaking.  See attachment.
>>     
> ----
> here's my take on it and others may and probably will differ...
>
> chkconfig NetworkManager off
> chkconfig network on
>
> The reason is that NetworkManager is mostly prone to starting only when
> user logs in and 'network' starts up early as daemon and doesn't require
> a user login. There apparently is configuration options to change that
> behavior.
>
> I suspect that if you execute those 2 commands, your next startup will
> have networking up and running at startup.
>
> Craig
>   

I finally found the problem, another artifact of the original livecd 
install.

    /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

    ONBOOT=no had to be set to yes.

All I changed there was NETMASK to:


    NETMASK=255.255.255.0

Thanks for the help.

Bob