[NTLUG:Discuss] Ethernet Not Working On Boot - Solved -- Question to Red Hat / Fedora

[Bryan Wangler]

So did it work? or did you do something else?

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Bryan Wangler <bryan.wangler at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey rice, I found a link for a dirty hack to fix the situation.
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> try this link
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/eth0-inactive-after-boot-131741/
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> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net>wrote:
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>> Just FYI, I have the same complaint about Ubuntu.
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>> On 02/05/2011 08:23 PM, Dennis Rice wrote:
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>>> On a followup to my previous request for help on the Ethernet interface
>>> not coming up during the boot process, one of my students gave me the
>>> reason and the problem has been solved - but not to my satisfaction.
>>>
>>> I had previously configured the interface to work using Network
>>> Configurator, not Network Manager. It appears that when Fedora boots, it
>>> looks t the Network Manager to see if the interface is to be configured.
>>> Since that app has been disabled, Fedora ignores the standard network
>>> files and does not activate the interface.
>>>
>>> I wish to direct this to the Red Hat / Fedora staff that read this list.
>>> WHY is the boot process looking at the Network Manager rather than the
>>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX file, and the other network
>>> files for bringing up the network? If it is not used, why are you even
>>> waisting everyones time and effort. I have observed that if the user
>>> changes hardware, as is done in a classroom environment, that a new
>>> ifcfg-ethX file is NOT created, but someplace deeply hidden the data is
>>> maintained. What standards are we working against?
>>>
>>> These are issues that make the system difficult to comprehend and teach.
>>> You want users to know how to administer the system, yet it is not being
>>> maintained in a consistent manner and appears, at least to my usage and
>>> teaching, to not conform to the standard operating practices.
>>>
>>> I am not a software engineer, rather a telecommunications engineer that
>>> goes out to make things work. These changes are not supporting the
>>> requirements to know how the system operates, rather they are keeping
>>> things hidden in the background. Please show a reasoning to the changes
>>> and how one can track the system operation.
>>>
>>> Dennis
>>>
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