Bill Marcum said... > 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?
Is there a need, since it is detected at boot? It's not there for the working version. > Maybe dhclient runs before the module is loaded. > Is the nic built in or on a card? It's built-in. There's no indication that dhclient is running at all during boot up, I thought that was the job of 'auto eth0 inet dhcp' - to do the dhcp thing. -- Best, Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
