On Mit, 07 Feb 2007, Enrique Perez-Terron wrote: > I have a laptop with deban etch. When I boot up, the loopback device is not > up and runnning, > I need to manually run 'ifconfig lo up'. What could I possibly have wrong?
in /etc/network/interfaces # We always want the loopback interface. # auto lo iface lo inet loopback the "auto lo" makes sure the interface is up the "iface" configures it correctly and in /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples are more advanced examples for /etc/network/interfaces > When I installed, I could not do an ordinary install because I needed the > madwifi wireless driver, > which was not on the network install images. I had to download a couple of > packages into > the Windows partition, and hand install them in debian until I could compile > the driver. > This means I may have omitted some basic package, since I am also new to > debian. then welcome to debian :-) -- Florian Reitmeir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
