On Sun, 19 May 2013 18:36:57 +0000, Beartooth wrote: Oops! I spoke too soon. It's doing it again. I killed NetworkManager again, no joy; yum remove NetworkManager, no joy. Service network start fumbles a while, and eventually gets RTNETLINK answers: File exists (and that then repeats nine times). I discovered eth0 missing, and created one (leaving the banks empty, in hope it would find what it needed). No joy. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.