f8: NetworkManager + runlevel 3 problem

[Timothy Murphy]

John Summerfield wrote:

> I have two
> desktop computers with PCI wireless cards, one's acting as a relay. I
> have three Linux laptops with wireless, one's acting as a  relay. Any of
> the others might have both interfaces active at any time, and there's no
> guessing which (if either) should be the gateway to the Internet.
> 
> None of my Linux laptops and only one of the wireless desktops boots to
> runlevel 5.

That seems a very strange setup.
Do you mean you use text mode all the time?

Incidentally, this is a very ignorant question,
but what do you mean when you say that
one of your three laptops is acting as a relay?