PARTLY SOLVED Re: ethernet connections in Karmic - how do I tame network manager?
Reinhold Rumberger
rrumberger at web.de
Wed Dec 9 19:11:35 UTC 2009
On Wednesday 09 December 2009, Lisi wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 December 2009 17:44:37 Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > Glad to hear that. Does that mean everything is running properly
> > now?
>
> No - it is still not starting automatically on boot up. Though
> once I run $sudo ifup eth0
> it is fine. So the problem must lie in the start-up. NM
> obviously wants the network started after KDE has booted up so
> that it (NM) can control the network.
Are you sure networking is started at boot-up? If nothing else works,
you can try adding "ifup eth0" to your /etc/rc.local
> Google suggests that NM does in fact alter some of the init
> scripts. So I shall purge NM and hope to sort everything else
> out.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know what some of the files ought to look
> like in the first place! I have never needed to dive in before.
> Those two files that you sent me off-list will be very useful. A
> friend also suggested that I should compare with a known-working
> Debian set up. NM won't have been near that!
:-) It might be due to some strange hardware, so the most reliable
comparison would be from a Debian unstable installed on the same
machine.
--Reinhold
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