On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:12:48PM +0100, marc wrote: > Hi. > > I have a couple of Debian installs on my laptop, on one the eth0 NIC > comes up during the boot process, but on the other it doesn't, although > it's identified and there in dmesg. I'm using the same interfaces file > for both, but clearly I'm missing something - that I probably did in the > midst of time and have now forgotten. > > /etc/network/interfaces says > > auto eth0 inet dhcp > > After boot, ifconfig shows no eth0, but "ifup eth0" says "eth0 already > configured". There is no way out at this point. > > When I "ifdown eth0" followed "ifup eth0" (or dhclient eth0) all is > sweet. > > What am I missing? > Is the module for the nic listed in /etc/modules? Maybe dhclient runs before the module is loaded. Is the nic built in or on a card?
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