On Thursday 22 November 2007 20:06, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 15:03 +0000, Tony Molloy wrote: > > On Thursday 22 November 2007 14:54, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > 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? > > > > > > --Tony > > > > Yep both NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher run at runlevels 3 > > and 5. > > Then I would look ar the system logs more carefully. Somewhere in them > it must show a record of why NM is being turned off after you say you > see a message it is turned on. > Since this is only a test laptop I'm going to re-install and see what happens. Tony > -- > ======================================================================= > Killing is stupid; useless! -- McCoy, "A Private Little War", stardate > 4211.8 > ======================================================================= > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
