On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Rob Day wrote:
>
> after installing a new Red Hat 5.2 box, then using linuxconf
> to configure the network interface, is there a linuxconf way to
> actually enable the interface? i can always drop out of linuxconf
> and type "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start". any other way?
Not sure if this is the problem. When you add an interface definition and
the kernel module is not loaded yet, quitting from linuxconf does not
do anything. For sure, if you reboot, things are fine (or run the network
start command).
If you do
modprobe ethX (the network device you configured)
then enter and leave linuxconf, it will do the right
thing.
This is a small flaw I have to fix in the probing code
...
Hum, now I remember the reason. Linuxconf can't tell if a network device
is a pcmcia or not (well, it can guess from /etc/conf.modules) so it is
unsure if a "network reload" is needed or not.
I will experiment a bit with that.
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