On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 10:28 +0000, Tony Molloy wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a problem with starting NetworkManager on F8. > > Hardware : Dell Latitude D600 with a Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 network adapter. > > Software: F8 with all the latest updates installed. > > The network service is disabled. NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher > are enabled. Same as on F7. > > SELinux is disabled so it's not the problem. > > During the boot the boot messages say both NetworkManager and > NetworkManagerDispatcher start OK. However when I login there is no network > service and when I check I find that the NetworkManager service is not > running although the NetworkManagerDispatcher is. > > If I then start NetworkManager manually with "service NetworkManager start" > everything is OK and I can connect to the wifi network. > > I've even tried putting "service NetworkManager start" in rc.local but it > didn't work. > > Any ideas what's stopping NetworkManager starting at boot. Although this does not completely explain the boot messages what does: chkconfig --list |grep NetworkManager return? Does it indicate that NM is to run at run level 3 and 5? > -- ======================================================================= It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. -- Abraham Lincoln ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
