Network interface won't come up on reboot

[Will Woods]

On May 5, 2008, at 10:02 PM, Marcus Leech wrote:

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> Marcus
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> Subject: Re: Network interface won't come up on reboot
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> Jesse Keating wrote:
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>>
>> Not expected to work.  /some/ service has to bring up the network,  
>> and
>> in F9 that service defaults to NetworkManager.  The old 'network'
>> service is there if you wish to revert back to it, but you will  
>> have to
>
>> turn it on if you turn NetworkManager off.
>>
>>
>>
> Check, got it.  Will test tonight.   This is presumably in the release
> notes, which I admit to
>  not having read, having never previously been bitten by stuff in the
> release notes in the
>  last several iterations of Fedora, which I've stuck with since FC2.
>
>
> Right. Got home, explicitly enabled Network, and the interface came up
> on boot.  Should have
>  read the release notes, I guess.
>
> This change will, I think, confuse users a tad.  (Or maybe just the
> easily-confused?? :-) :-) ).
>  I'm used to having the turn on NetworkManager after I do the initial
> install, if that's
>  appropriate.  Like for roving laptops, and desktops where the  
> assigned
> address doesn't
>  need to be static, etc.  With having NetworkManager turned on by
> default, and having
>  Network turned *off* by default, users trying to set static, and turn
> off NM, will
>  trip over this, I think.

Unlikely. New users will have newly-written configs, and  
NetworkManager handles setup of static interfaces from ifcfg-eth0 just  
fine. No need to enable 'network' unless you're doing something that  
NM doesn't understand. In that case you've probably got it enabled  
already, and I'm almost certain we don't interfere in that case.

Stuff that was installed *during* the F9 rawhide cycle may have gotten  
some weird configs in there which throw this off a bit. But new users,  
and people upgrading from F8, should be just fine.

-w