system-config-network won't stick

Scot L. Harris webid at cfl.rr.com
Tue Jan 11 14:17:17 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 02:29, Amy M wrote:
> During FC3 installation, I selected eth1 to be activated during 
> booting.  Now I want eth0 to be active, so I used system-config-network 
> to check the profile box for eth0 and unchecked eth1.
> 
> However, when I reboot the system, eth1 remains activated and eth0 still 
> inactive.  How can I make this selection stick?  Thanks.

Are these cards by chance pcmcia cards?  If so you will probably find
that the activate during boot option does not do anything for you.  When
pcmcia services startup any pcmcia network cards will be started
auto-magically.  What is even worse is in the past I found that if you
told it to start at boot time pcmcia cards would NOT start since the
network services piece starts before pcmcia services and everything gets
fubared.  

At present about all you can do is tell the system NOT to start a pcmcia
network interface and let it start when pcmcia services run.

Those with multiple pcmcia cards are stuck.  

It is broken, has been for a long time.
  
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Scot L. Harris
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