NIC defaults to Inactive
 

Hi there,

I am running Redhat 7.3 with a single NIC. I have two device configurations set on the card - one for LAN and one for internet. Using XWindows I have set the LAN config to active and ticked the box "Activate device when computer starts" and left the internet config set to inactive. Every time I reboot the server both configs come up inactive. Please help as I am quite new to Linux and I'm not sure which file to edit.

Thanks in advance,
Glenn
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i'm unaware of what GUI tool you are using to do this, but what this should actually be doing is setting the ONBOOT= option to "yes" in the file called /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 - assuming that this intefrace is eth0. just change it yourself, it's a doddle.

Hi Chris,

I have checked this file and the ONBOOT option is set to YES. Any ideas?

Cheers,
Glenn.

well maybe the entire network is not set to boot (the bit that loads each of these servcies) run "service network status" and if that says "stopped" try "chkconfig --levels 35 network on" i *think*...make sure that seems right going by the chkconfig manpage. if that doesn't work then it'd seem that there's an error somewhere.

Ok, I've run the chkconfig command and it says that the network is on for levels 3 & 5. The service network status however does not even list the eth0 card as being configured! It is only listing the loopback and irlan0. How do I add the card as a configured device?? (bit of a Linux virign I'm afraid :-( )

Cheers,
Glenn