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
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