On Wednesday 04 Apr 2007 01:07:50 Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > Hi, > > This is something I noticed while I was playing around with my Triband > connection on USB. If I start (or reboot) my router after my computer > has started, the network interface for the USB connection is detected > but not enabled automatically. I have to manually up the interface. > > I guess this behaviour is expected under debian since network > configuration (upping of interfaces) takes place only at startup > through /etc/init.d/networking. Any network devices detected after > startup will be configured but not enabled. > > Shouldn't default behaviour be to simply enable the interface if it is > defined as auto in /etc/network/interfaces?
You might want to set some udev rules. -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------
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