NetworkManager under KDE

[Timothy Murphy]

Ian Pilcher wrote:

> On 12/13/2009 07:50 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> I am running Fedora-12 with KDE.
>> Is it possible to configure NM (NetworkManager)
>> so that it starts before I login,
>> and does not require me to enter a password?
>> 
>> The instructions I have seen for this all seem to assume
>> that one is using Gnome rather than KDE.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453880

I should confess that the problem in my case
turned out to be an error in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
where NM (I assume) had written MODE=master
leading to an error reported in /var/log/messages .
Having replaced this entry with MODE=managed ,
NM now starts before login, as desired.

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