On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 15:18 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan 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. > > > > system-config-network. > > What about it? > I have the checkbox "Activate device when computer starts" ticked, > but this appears to have no effect. Do you also have "controlled by NetworkManager" ticked? Try "allow all users to activate/deactivate". I have all three of these and it works fine. And make sure of course that you're setting this stuff for the correct device, just in case. poc