F10 not connected at start up -

[Bob Goodwin]

Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:12 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>>>>     
>>>>         
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>>> 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.
>>     
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> I would expect that if this is the case and there were a problem with
> them starting during bootup, that /var/log/messages would indicate the
> problem.
>
> Craig
>
>   

/var/log/messages  shows a number of references to NetworkManager.  I'm not sure what they mean or why they are there but it should be turned off?  

I find that if I boot it as root instead of bobg I eliminate three password entries, however it still does not come up connected until I click on "activate." in Network Device Control.  Then I can enable Firestarter.  It's faster and easier but not the solution I was looking for.

Bob