Re: The mystery of WiFi

On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 13:24 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Tod Merley wrote:

IIRC, Fedora - and other distributions -
tried to bring up the interface <xyz>
if there was a file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<xyz>.

But this no longer seems to be the case -
I have an ifcfg-eth0 which is completely ignored
by "service network restart" and even "ifup eth0".

How does Fedora now decide what interfaces to try to bring up?

I believe they are using an automated environment overseen by
NetworkManager.

To play in a bit more static environment (from gnome desktop):

System > Administration > Services
Un-check NetworkManager
Checki Network (about 2/3 down the list)
Save!
Reboot or restart service.

Actually, I'm almost certain I wasn't running NetworkManager (NM)
on the computer in question.
I don't normally run NM, because it does not work
with all the WiFi cards I use -
in particular it does not work with my Orinoco PCMCIA cards,
which I am reluctant to throw away as they have very good antennae -
and I like to run as near as possible the same system
on all my machines.

I've also found that "alias eth0 xyz" in /etc/modprobe.conf
also seems to be often ignored.

"service network start|restart" depends on having an "ONBOOT=yes" line
in the ifcfg-eth0 file. If you can type in "ifup eth0" and the card
comes up, then you probably have "ONBOOT=no" or no line in the file.

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