On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Haines Brown wrote about, Re: network configuration does not
stick:
> > > under Interfaces, I'm told that eth0 is
> > > and "unmanaged device." I can't edit such unmanaged devices in netcfg.
> > > What does this mean, that netcfg is not owner of the network
> > > configuration files?
> >
> > Quite possably it does mean that, root has to configure interfaces of such
> > caliber.
>
> Richard,
>
>
> > Redhat defines network configuration in /etc/sysconfig/network.
>
> Well, my comment was because I was fairly confident the network file
> is set up right.
Ok, if i remember correctly there is one line simalar to;
NETWORKING=false
as a default entry, if one turns false into true it could make all the
difference.
Further, what does 'dmesg' say about eth0 just after booting.??
Is there any error messages in /var/log/messages / syslog / *.?
>
> > You could edit all the lines into /etc/rc.d/rc.local as well, then it will
> > get started at bootime untill you lrean more about how redhat jumps from
> > one /etc/rc dir to another during bootime.
>
> Yes, I could do that, although runing the commands as I'm doing now
> does not let me get lazy and forget there is a problem ;-)
One thought, if your ethernet driver is defined as a module is it defined
in /etc/modules.conf so that kmod/kerneld knows what driver to load.???
>
> Thanks for the helpful reply.
>
> Haines
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