Balaji, that fixed the problem! eth0 starts on boot with no problems. It is amazing how the little things can keep you stuck for hours and hours and hours. Thanks again for your great help. Balaji Ramani wrote: > 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
