-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 22 October 2004 03:08 am, David Johnson wrote: > Ok, so I added the line: MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes > > to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > > And eth0 comes up properly at boot time. Thanks for the help everyone! > > Now, the question for learning purposes is: What did I change and why > did it fix the problem? >
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes means that the card should not check whether the linkbeat of the network is present or not. Some card like 3Com requires that the network cable to be plugged in in order to initialize properly. In your case, it seems that the vmware machine needs it too. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 06:14:32 up 14:04, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBeEN3kp5CsIXuxqURAhL9AJsFmAVo+v1AAgwNaoq0Kom7ZTg2OwCgxrOh Eyv2aOwt3FJlcZqgDwCgzqY= =Q0ir -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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