F10 not connected at start up -

[Bob Goodwin]

Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 14:34 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
>> I have an F-10 box that does not connect at boot.  I believe network 
>> manager is completely disabled.  It starts in text mode, I enter startx.
>>
>> Fortunately I usually only boot it once a day at the most but it is a 
>> bother.  I start it as 'bobg' and it wants a password [more than a dozen 
>> characters], Then since it's not connected 'firestarter' isn't running 
>> and it too wants a password, but since it's not connected 'firestarter' 
>> wont start until I bring up system-config-network to activate the 
>> connection, but first it wants a password, once that is down I can go to 
>> the firestarter menu and start it.
>>
>> This is beginning to bother me and I know it must be something I have 
>> misconfigured but haven't found it yet.  It just asked for some security 
>> updates and I told it ok, enter the password again.  That's four times 
>> in a few minutes and I haven't asked the computer to do any work yet!
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>     
> ----
> the default is to have NetworkManager service on and 'network' service
> off and also to boot runlevel 5 so clearly you have been changing things
> since the original installation.
>
> You might want to ensure that 'network' service is set to automatically
> start at your runlevel (you don't say which boot level you are
> setting)...
>
> chkconfig --list network
>
> and I would presume if you are booting runlevel 3, which is supposed to
> have networking turned on by default, the above should show 'on' for
> runlevel 3.
>
> if not, execute either
>
> chkconfig --levels 2345 network on # very explicit
> or
> chkconfig network on # less explicit, uses /etc/init.d/network
>                      # chkconfig statement to determine
>
> You might want to do similar for 'Firestarter' service to ensure it too
> is automatically started at boot up.
>
> Craig
>
>
>   

Both network and firestarter are on for 2345, off for the others.

Bob