Problem with NIC going inactive upon reboot

[James Lytle]

Configurations for 2 identical machines are as follows:

P4 3.0 GHz processor
Intel 915GEVLK motherboard (Gigabit ethernet)
1 GB DDR2 memory
3Ware 8506-4LP
2 WD800
Fedora Core 4

Problem I am having is that when the machines are rebooted, the network connection show to be inactive.  I have to manually activate it under the Network configuration in XWindows.  More of an annoyance than anything.

Thanks!
James Lytle
IS Director