Hi Hugh, Thank you for your response and excuse for insufficient info... I'll add next details in your text. Regards, jh > ------------ Původní zpráva ------------ > Od: D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@xxxxxxxxxx> > Předmět: Re: LAN Card doesn't activate > Datum: 11.1.2010 02:10:49 > ---------------------------------------- > | From: j.halifax . <j.halifax@xxxxxxxxx> > > | Doesn't anybody know why my LAN Cards don't get active after rebooting > | despite of having the check-box for automated activation checked? > | > | After every reboot I have to open Network option in System->Admin menu > | and activate cards manual way. > > You haven't told us much about your setup. Yes, sorry, I believed that it is some basic mistake I have done. > > Assuming you are using Fedora, what version are you using? uname -r tells me 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 > > Why do you say "cards"? How many do you have? In how many systems? I have 3 cards to Internet DSL and 2 different networks > > Are your cards managed by Network Manager, or by the old fashioned > system-config-network etc. scripts? I find that the two systems can > interfere. I don't use Network manager, LAN devices are configured as it follows: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:11:B1:5D:0D inet addr:195.39.130.92 Bcast:195.39.130.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21b:11ff:feb1:5d0d/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:247782 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:211249 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:156440806 (149.1 MiB) TX bytes:50247350 (47.9 MiB) Interrupt:21 Base address:0xca00 "cat /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0" gives: # VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105/VT6106S [Rhine-III] DEVICE=eth0 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=none TYPE=Ethernet NM_CONTROLLED=no IPV6INIT=no USERCTL=no NAME="System eth0" UUID=5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03 HWADDR=00:1b:11:b1:5d:0d PEERROUTES=yes IPADDR=195.39.130.92 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=195.39.130.89 DNS2=195.226.224.72 DNS1=195.226.224.74 eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:5B:38:B7:36 inet addr:10.255.250.37 Bcast:10.255.250.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::219:5bff:fe38:b736/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:761309 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:195979 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:84964475 (81.0 MiB) TX bytes:148972906 (142.0 MiB) Interrupt:22 Base address:0xa900 "cat /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth2" gives: DEVICE=eth2 BOOTPROTO=none NETMASK=255.255.255.0 TYPE=Ethernet HWADDR=00:19:5b:38:b7:36 IPADDR=10.255.250.37 NM_CONTROLLED=no IPV6INIT=no ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=no DNS2=195.226.224.72 DNS1=195.226.224.74 GATEWAY=195.39.130.89 MTU=1500 eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:11:B1:1C:D4 inet addr:172.16.110.3 Bcast:172.16.110.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21b:11ff:feb1:1cd4/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:47237 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4589511 (4.3 MiB) TX bytes:3610 (3.5 KiB) Interrupt:18 Base address:0x6800 "cat /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth3" gives me: # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt # for the documentation of these parameters. DEVICE=eth3 BOOTPROTO=none NETMASK=255.255.255.0 TYPE=Ethernet HWADDR=00:1b:11:b1:1c:d4 IPADDR=172.16.110.3 NM_CONTROLLED=no IPV6INIT=no ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=no lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:11088 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11088 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:942300 (920.2 KiB) TX bytes:942300 (920.2 KiB) > > > On three notebooks, I use Network Manager: it is better at handling > changes in connectivity. > > For some reason, the notebook running Fedora 11 and the one running > Fedora 12 don't automatically connect to the wired network: I have to > poke the NetworkManager icon to get a menu and select from that menu > the wired interface. For wireless, that would make sense, but for > wired that seems silly: after all I wired the connection. Isn't it similar to my problems? > > > Does this correspond to what you are experiencing? I guess that it does. :( > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines