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Due to some other conflicts, I disabled/stopped NetworkManager in Fedora 15,

Now, for network configuration I used system-config-network-gui to config & enable Ethernet interface,

Problem is, when system starts, the Ethernet does not become enabled. Although in configuration through system-config-network, I specifically checked "Activate device when computer starts" "Allow all users to enable and disable the device",

and cleared "Controlled by NetworkManager"

I double checked the config file "/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0" to see if the configurations are saved correctly and onboot is enabled. And they look OK.

so, Why still it does not become enabled automatically on boot?

# Atheros Communications AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
TYPE=Ethernet
IPV6INIT=no
USERCTL=yes
DEFROUTE=yes
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes
NAME="System eth0"
UUID=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
DNS2=4.2.2.4
DNS1=8.8.8.8
IPADDR0=192.168.0.200
PREFIX0=24
GATEWAY0=192.168.0.1
DNS3=192.9.9.3
HWADDR=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
IPADDR=192.168.0.200
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
NM_CONTROLLED=no
PREFIX=24
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  • Please show /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 contents – dchirikov Jan 15 '13 at 15:53
  • # Atheros Communications AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet DEVICE=eth0 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=none TYPE=Ethernet IPV6INIT=no USERCTL=yes DEFROUTE=yes IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes NAME="System eth0" UUID=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX DNS2=4.2.2.4 DNS1=8.8.8.8 IPADDR0=192.168.0.200 PREFIX0=24 GATEWAY0=192.168.0.1 DNS3=192.9.9.3 HWADDR=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX IPADDR=192.168.0.200 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=192.168.0.1 NM_CONTROLLED=no PREFIX=24 – Saeed Jan 15 '13 at 15:58
  • using the system-config-network-cmd I got furthur with the troubleshooting. It seems that somehow the DNS is mis-configured in the file, although I have always used the system-network-config commands to add DNS server. Here is extract of system-config-network-cmd Component: system-config-network Version: 1.6.2 File "/usr/sbin/system-config-network-cmd", line 292, ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 24DNS2=4.2.2.4 Local variables in innermost frame: confkey: ONBOOT DevEthernet.Prefix=24DNS2=4.2.2.4 DevEthernet.PrimaryDNS=8.8.8.8 – Saeed Jan 16 '13 at 13:36
  • correcting the file, still did not help, and the system boots up without its network interfaces enabled. – Saeed Jan 16 '13 at 13:42
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BOOTPROTO=static in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 would solve you problem

But it seems that you got a bug described in bugzilla:

ifup doesn't assign address specified with IPADDR0

My recomenration is to use vim or nano for edit /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0:

# Atheros Communications AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet
DEVICE=eth0
UUID=XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
HWADDR=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
NM_CONTROLLED=no
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
NAME="System eth0"
TYPE=Ethernet
IPADDR=192.168.0.200
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
DNS1=8.8.8.8
DNS2=4.2.2.4
DNS3=192.9.9.3
USERCTL=yes
DEFROUTE=yes
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes
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  • Thanks dchirikov, I also changed bootproto=none to bootproto=static I'm testing to see the result. good link to the bugzilla. cheers – Saeed Jan 16 '13 at 10:58

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