Greetings all -- I need help!! I can't figure out why my networking won't start on boot, but works just fine if i use Drakeconf to restart networking. I have Mandrake 7.2 set up on a system with an ABIT KT7 motherboard, AMD 800 Mhz T-Bird, 256M, ATI video, Linksys LNE100TX eithernet adapter, and USR 33.6k modem (ISA on Comm 2 - ports there, system can't find modem? -- that's a problem for later) I boot the system, eth0 fails, (ybind also) everything else works great, I use Drake conf to configure the network (it already has the IP and Domain values, I just go though it to get to the "restart networking" prompt) then say yes to restart and every thing works fine. I don't see why it should work fine but fail to initialize on boot. I then kill and restart smbd and nmdb and presto, Samba is up and running fine. I need to get this problem fixed, because if the system reboots when I'm gone, I am up a creek. I have included my ifcfg-eth0, excerpts from my boot log, and kernel/errors below in this plea for help. Any tips, suggestions or information you may have will be greatly appreciated. David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (936) 715-9333 ************************************************** ifcfg-eth0 is as follows: ************************************************** DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.7.14 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.7.0 BROADCAST=192.168.7.255 ONBOOT=yes ************************************************** Excerpts from Boot.log are as follows: ************************************************** Jan 23 13:54:40 Nemesis rc.sysinit: Checking filesystems succeeded Jan 23 13:54:47 Nemesis rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems succeeded Jan 23 13:54:47 Nemesis rc.sysinit: Checking loopback filesystems succeeded Jan 23 13:54:47 Nemesis rc.sysinit: Mounting loopback filesystems: succeeded Jan 23 13:54:47 Nemesis rc.sysinit: Turning on user and group quotas for local filesystems: succeeded Jan 23 13:54:48 Nemesis rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space: succeeded Jan 23 13:54:49 Nemesis mandrake_everytime: Building Window Manager Sessions succeeded Jan 23 13:54:49 Nemesis network: Setting network parameters: succeeded Jan 23 13:54:49 Nemesis network: Bringing up interface lo: succeeded Jan 23 13:54:49 Nemesis ifup: Delaying eth0 initialization. Jan 23 13:54:49 Nemesis network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed Jan 23 13:54:50 Nemesis usb: Loading USB interface succeeded Jan 23 13:54:50 Nemesis usb: Mount USB filesystem succeeded Jan 23 13:54:53 Nemesis portmap: portmap startup succeeded Jan 23 13:54:53 Nemesis ypbind: ypbind startup failed Jan 23 13:54:53 Nemesis autofs: autofs startup succeeded Jan 23 13:54:53 Nemesis random: Initializing random number generator: succeeded Jan 23 13:54:53 Nemesis netfs: Mounting other filesystems: succeeded Jan 23 13:54:56 Nemesis cfd: cfd startup succeeded Jan 23 13:54:56 Nemesis named: named startup succeeded Jan 23 13:54:56 Nemesis sshd: Starting sshd: Jan 23 13:54:56 Nemesis sshd: succeeded Jan 23 13:54:56 Nemesis sshd: ^[[60G Jan 23 13:54:56 Nemesis sshd: Jan 23 13:54:56 Nemesis rc: Starting sshd: succeeded Jan 23 13:54:59 Nemesis xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded Jan 23 13:54:59 Nemesis cups: cupsd startup succeeded Jan 23 13:55:00 Nemesis lpd: lpd startup succeeded Jan 23 13:55:00 Nemesis nfslock: rpc.lockd startup succeeded Jan 23 13:55:00 Nemesis nfslock: rpc.statd startup succeeded Jan 23 13:55:01 Nemesis zope: zserver.sh startup succeeded Jan 23 13:55:01 Nemesis loadkeys: Loading /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz Jan 23 13:55:02 Nemesis keytable: Loading keymap: us succeeded Jan 23 13:55:02 Nemesis loadkeys: Loading /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/include/compose.latin1.inc.gz Jan 23 13:55:02 Nemesis keytable: Loading compose keys: compose.latin1.inc succeeded Jan 23 13:55:02 Nemesis keytable: succeeded Jan 23 13:55:02 Nemesis lvs: IPv4 packet forwarding disabled failed Jan 23 13:55:02 Nemesis postfix: Starting postfix: Jan 23 13:55:07 Nemesis postfix: postfix Jan 23 13:55:07 Nemesis rc: Starting postfix: succeeded Jan 23 13:55:08 Nemesis gpm: gpm startup succeeded Jan 23 13:55:10 Nemesis httpd: httpd-perl startup succeeded Jan 23 13:55:20 Nemesis httpd: httpd startup succeeded Jan 23 13:55:22 Nemesis numlock: Jan 23 13:55:22 Nemesis rc: Starting numlock: succeeded Jan 23 13:55:24 Nemesis start: Starting Webmin server in /usr/share/webmin Jan 23 13:55:24 Nemesis webmin: Starting Webmin succeeded Jan 23 13:55:24 Nemesis xfs: xfs startup succeeded Jan 23 13:55:26 Nemesis smb: smbd startup succeeded Jan 23 13:55:27 Nemesis smb: nmbd startup succeeded Jan 23 13:55:27 Nemesis anacron: anacron startup succeeded Jan 23 13:55:27 Nemesis rc.news: Starting innd. Jan 23 13:55:28 Nemesis sh: rc.news startup succeeded Jan 23 13:55:28 Nemesis rc: Starting kheader: succeeded Jan 23 13:55:29 Nemesis netconf: Checking kernel configuration Jan 23 13:55:29 Nemesis linuxconf: Running Linuxconf hooks: succeeded Jan 23 13:55:30 Nemesis mon: mon startup succeeded ******* When I restart networking from Drakeconf it works, I don't get it? Jan 23 14:01:40 Nemesis network: Setting network parameters: succeeded Jan 23 14:01:40 Nemesis network: Bringing up interface lo: succeeded Jan 23 14:01:41 Nemesis network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded ************************************************** var/log/kernel/errors ************************************************** Jan 23 13:55:34 Nemesis kernel: agpgart: Unsupported Via chipset, you might want to try agp_try_unsupported=1.
