Might be a very basic question, but do you have an alias for eth0 in /etc/modules.conf? I have one which says alias eth0 tulip Balaji On Tuesday 23 January 2001 15:49, you wrote: > 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
