f9 eth0 not enabled on startup

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed May 14 18:48:14 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 11:09 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> "David L" <idht4n at gmail.com> writes:
> > Each time I reboot f9, the eth0 device doesn't come up.
> > system-config-network shows eth0 as having the activate-
> > on-boot box checked.  I can start eth0 manually after boot-up,
> > but it's a pain.  Any ideas what's wrong?
> 
>   chkconfig network on
>   service network start
> 
> I noticed that F9 from a clean install (at least on my 2 amd64
> installs) appeared to have the networking service off.  I don't know
> if they can claim that this is for added security since F9 brings up
> the network during the install.  It is only after the first reboot
> that one is hosed.

Are you running NetworkManager? In general, NM and s-c-n don't get
along. You need to use one or the other.

poc




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