On 01/01/2008, Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 . > Perhaps you forgot to turn on the "network" service - in F8 it is off by default because NM is on by default. You need to turn NM off and chkconfig network on.