[ubuntu-uk] NFS and NetworkManager

[Peter Lewis]

On Sunday 02 December 2007 15:21:34 Tony Arnold wrote:
> Peter Lewis wrote:
> > 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.

Another good suggestion, thanks Tony. I've switched it over to a manual 
configuration (i.e. in /etc/network/interfaces) now, so will do a reboot and 
see what happens...

Cheers,

Pete.