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Description of problem: I had to boot to runlevel 3 to recover from a new xorg release clobbering my ATI Catalyst driver (I had a blank screen). I needed network access and found I had only loopback, although the NetworkManager was running. I ended up having to manually create an ifcfg-eth0 file and restart the network service to get access to the network. After installing a new Catlyst driver and rebooting, all is well. runlevel 3 is supposed to include network access, so this is a problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): NetworkManager 0.8.3.998-2.fc14 x86_64 How reproducible: See below. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot in single user mode 2. init 3 to go to runlevel 3 3. attempt to access the network which will fail Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
NetworkManager needs a connection to activate it. You should have ifcfg-eth0 file (it is created by installer initially). Moreover, in order to start connection automatically, ONBOOT=yes has to present there. Otherwise the connection is not started automatically, but you can activate it manually via 'ifup eth0'.
Hi Jirka, Thanks for the reply. There was no ifcfg-eth0 file -- I had to manually create it. I use a standard live-CD install of F14 (x86_64). If the file is missing from a standard install, then it is a problem. I will check my other F14 systems to see if they are missing the file as well. Thanks, Erik
Hi again, I just verified on my office laptop, which has a recent install of F14: there is no ifcfg-eth0 file. The /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices dir is empty. This means the user has to manually create the file if it is needed. Somehow there is a disconnect between the files the Network Manager assumes are available and what the installer creates. Thanks, Erik
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