Hello,
You would run the command:
# ln -s /etc/init.d/net.{lo,ethX}
However, "ethX" would refer to the device name of your network card,
which you should be able to find out via a search on Google.
- Neil
On 21:53 Wed 11 Oct , Lord Sauron wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:45, Trenton Adams wrote:
> > You create net.eth0, or whatever, by linking /etc/init.d/net.ethX to
> > /etc/init.d/net.lo The driver will create the actual kernel device
> > name of eth0, ath0, or whatever, and then your link will make it
> > work.
>
> Makes sense. How do I do that?
>
> I'm a little dense here: how would I do that? Is there some special
> command? Do I copy the thing and rename it? Do I do the funky Gentoo
> dance and burn a sacrificial hard drive to the gods of the IBM
> DeathStar hard drives and hope it'll work in a week?
>
> Just kidding about that last one, but I'm know where you're going, just
> not how to get there ; )
>
> Thanks for your help, by the way - wouldn't have gotten past the funky
> Gentoo dance w/o you : )
>
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