Re: The mystery of WiFi

[Timothy Murphy <tim birdsnest maths tcd ie>]

Tim wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 14:01 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> My claim is: when the laptop booted (without NM)
>> it did not try to bring eth0 up,
>> even though there was a
>> file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 .
> 
> There mere presence of that file doesn't mean it will be brought up, you
> also have to have the configuration set to bring it up at boot up.
> 
> Do you?

ifcfg-eth0 did say "ONBOOT=yes".
I always set this.

I may have access to the laptop again soon.
I'll see exactly what the settings are.

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