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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