Hello,

slackware-current x86 running here with KDE, all freshly installed from Slackware 14 RC5.

I am trying to start network-manager at startup (hence the title). Network-manager was included from the beginning so I thought, I'd give it a chance.

When starting KDE, there's an (nm?)applet in my taskbar which states that network-manager is not running. It then picks up its work when I tell him to do so:
So the network-manager itself is functioning fine.

According to this post I checked that /etc/rc.d/rc.M looked as described there. But still network-manager doesn't come up when booting up.

Hmm... my best guess is, that I have not yet understood the order of the init-scripts. Where do I have to edit what in order to let network-manager boot up when going into multiuser (init 3)?

Thank you very much in advance!

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager

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Thank you, it worked. I didn't know you could execute scripts even though they are not marked as executable...

You can, as long as you invoke the script as the first argument given to the program or command that will execute it, like this:
When you execute it like this instead:
the command interpreter looks at the first line of the script to find which program it should invoque to execute the script, in this case:
so it tells the /bin/sh program to execute the script.

As you already knew, the latter way only works if the script is executable.