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? > >> > > ---- > > 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. ---- 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
