Fedora core 3 install
Don Dupy
fedora at maxxrad.net
Fri Apr 8 22:20:26 UTC 2005
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:37:51 -0500 (CDT)
> Don Dupy <fedora at maxxrad.net> wrote:
>
>> I have my laptop set not to start eth0 at bootup.
>> The network stuff will hang for a long time if it isn't connected to a
>> network and cannot get DHCP. Once it is booted up, I open a terminal and
>>
>> type "ifup eth0" and that starts the ethernet card.
>>
>> If you have KDE or Gnome installed, go into the network configuration,
>> and you can change the boot up parameters there.
>
> If you use your laptop both on and off a network a lot (like I do), you
> might want to just assign a simple script that activates the network to a
> launcher in your KDE/Gnome/XFCE bar. Here's the script I use (requires
> that users be able to activate/deactivate eth0):
>
> http://home.mindspring.com/~charletiv/netswitch.html
>
> I have eth0 set to not start at bootup as well.
>
>
doesn't work under FC1, had to restart network services
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Don Dupy
FC1 - Kernel 2.4.22 - Dell Poweredge 600SC
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