On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 22:37, Carl & Sue Thompson wrote: > 3 When starting up (Mandrake) the startup hangs on "bringing up > interface ethos" - spends time looking or doing whatever its doing and > eventually "fails". Is there anything that is able to be done not to > have to sit through this each time?
This is because your ethernet device is looking for a DHCP server. An ordinary home user will not have a dhcp server and hence will need to have a Mandrake config file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file that looks something like: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 onBOOT=yes I would recommend copying this or alternatively (preferrably for boot speed) changing to onboot=no. That way the NIC won't start at boot time. Using this config file it would be okay to use "ifup eth0" to start your network card after booting. This is a general answer based on the assumtion you have one ethernet card and only one PC in your home network, Cheers, Michael.
