On 12/20/2009 05:38 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Ian Pilcher wrote: > >> On 12/13/2009 07:50 AM, Timothy Murphy 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. >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453880 > > I should confess that the problem in my case > turned out to be an error in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 > where NM (I assume) had written MODE=master > leading to an error reported in /var/log/messages . > Having replaced this entry with MODE=managed , > NM now starts before login, as desired. Master seems to be the default mode when configuring a wireless card in system-config-network. I almost missed changing it to managed myself. >
