ethX activation at boot problem, primarily with laptops

Xavier Toth txtoth at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 16:39:38 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 10:34 -0500, Xavier Toth wrote:
>  > A workmate open a bug on this problem:
>  >
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443821
>
>  Yeah, notting closed as NOTABUG since we're defaulting to NetworkManager
>  for now.  Which means I'm curious why NM wasn't bringing up the network.
>
>
>  Do you have any ifcfg-* files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ ?
>
>  Do you have ONBOOT=yes in your ifcfg files?
>
>  Would also be good to get /var/log/messages after it's booted up to see
>  what's going on.
>
>  Dan
>
>
>  > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Xavier Toth <txtoth at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > Hmmm... for some reason the network was 'off', thanks. I'll see if
>  > >  this is the same issue for the other systems.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >  On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
>  > >  >
>  > >  > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 08:48 -0500, Xavier Toth wrote:
>  > >  >  > We have a number of laptops where the network is not activated at boot
>  > >  >  > as specified by he configuration. We also saw this on a desktop box
>  > >  >  > and replaced the network card which resolved the issue. Are others
>  > >  >  > experiencing this problem and if so is there a solution/workaround?
>  > >  >
>  > >  >  Is this with F9?  What's the output of:
>  > >  >
>  > >  >  chkconfig --list | grep NetworkManager
>  > >  >  chkconfig --list | grep network
>  > >  >
>  > >  >  Do you have any ifcfg-* files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ ?
>  > >  >
>  > >  >  If you do, does the file for your network card contain ONBOOT=yes ?
>  > >  >
>  > >  >  Dan
>  > >  >
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I've had trouble with NM resetting my network setting so I turned it
off. Yes /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 has ONBOOT=yes.




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