Re: NM before login?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 00:32 +0200, Eric Brunet lps ens fr wrote:
> Dans son message du jeudi 23/07/09 à 14:35, Dan Williams a écrit:
> > > 
> > > However, /etc/rc.d/init.d/network picks it also. For each file
> > 
> > Yup
> > 
> > chkconfig network off
> > 
> > will turn that off for you and let NM just do its job.
> 
> Thanks for your answer; I tried that (or maybe I tried to write
> NETWORKING=no in /etc/sysconfig/network; I think it's equivalent), but
> then I don't have anymore a loopback interface, which might be
> problematic.
> 
> Maybe the easiest thing to do is to put a ifup lo in rc.local.
> 
> Shouldn't NetworkManager bring up a loopback interface if it's absent ?

It should, yes, and there's certainly code to do that.  What does
'ifconfig -a' show for you when you encounter this problem?

Dan