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

[Leroy Tennison]

On 02/05/2011 09:44 PM, Stuart Johnston wrote:
> Just FYI, I have the same complaint about Ubuntu.
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> On 02/05/2011 08:23 PM, Dennis Rice wrote:
>> 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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<sigh> We are being assimilated by "Windows thinking", sad.  Maybe if we 
complain enough...