On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 14:01 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > My claim is: when the laptop booted (without NM) > it did not try to bring eth0 up, > even though there was a > file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 . There mere presence of that file doesn't mean it will be brought up, you also have to have the configuration set to bring it up at boot up. Do you? -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.