[ubuntu-uk] NFS and NetworkManager

[Tony Arnold]

Pete,

Peter Lewis wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been living with this for a while, but it's starting to annoy me a 
> little. I wonder if anyone can help.
> 
> So far as I can tell, my network connection is brought up when I log in to my 
> Kubuntu box, through the network manager tray icon. This connects me to my 
> wireless network.
> 
> However, I have a couple of NFS shares, which are listed in fstab. They never 
> get brought up automatically though, since during booting, the network is not 
> up yet. I then have to do a 'sudo mount -a' to get them to come up *after* 
> I've logged in.
> 
> I'm sure it's not supposed to work like this. How do I get the network up 
> earlier so that this isn't an issue?

Is this a desktop that always connects to the same Wireless Access
Point? if so, you could manually configure the wireless (click on the
network manager icon and select manual configuration). The wireless
connection should come up at boot time then.

Regards,
Tony.
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