Re: Debian Newbie Question on Network Config
- Original Message - From: Joyce, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Alberto Tobias' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian-User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:36 PM Subject: RE: Debian Newbie Question on Network Config /etc/network/interfaces or, alternatively you can install etherconf. 'apt-get install etherconf' this will lead you through a prompted setup. Matt Thanks for the tip! However, it does noet appear to solve my issue. After reboot I still need to manually bring up the eth0 interface and configure it. An ifconfig -a only shows the loopback interface. After I do a modprobe tulip the eth0 interface appears as well and I only neede to assign it its IP address and gateway and everything works again. What can I do to make this automatic at boot time? Where can I find the error messages (if any) the system geenrates while booting when it fails to bring up the interface? I cannot see anything in /var/log/dmesg Thanks in advance, Alberto -- -Original Message- From: Alberto Tobias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2003 8:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Debian Newbie Question on Network Config Hi, I relatively new to LInux. The last couple of months I have been dabbling with some distributions, but right now I am staying with Debian. I have however one question. I have troubles with my network card. I can get it up and running ok, using the tulip drivers from scyld.org. I can configure it, add the default routes etc etc. But I have to do this everytime I boot the system, because I don't know where to add the configuration so it is set up right when it boots. Where do I do this? Which startup scripts do I need to change? Thanks in advance, Alberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Newbie Question on Network Config
Alberto Tobias wrote: /etc/network/interfaces or, alternatively you can install etherconf. 'apt-get install etherconf' this will lead you through a prompted setup. Matt Thanks for the tip! However, it does noet appear to solve my issue. After reboot I still need to manually bring up the eth0 interface and configure it. An ifconfig -a only shows the loopback interface. After I do a modprobe tulip the eth0 interface appears as well and I only neede to assign it its IP address and gateway and everything works again. What can I do to make this automatic at boot time? Where can I find the error messages (if any) the system geenrates while booting when it fails to bring up the interface? I cannot see anything in /var/log/dmesg Thanks in advance, Alberto Add the module tulip to /etc/modules, like this: # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a #, and everything on the line after them are ignored. tulip via82cxxx_audio visor and edit /etc/network/interfaces, something like this: # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface # automatically added when upgrading auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) # automatically added when upgrading auto eth0 #iface eth0 inet static # address 192.168.123.2 # netmask 255.255.255.0 # network 192.168.123.0 # broadcast 192.168.123.255 # gateway 192.168.123.1 iface eth0 inet dhcp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Debian Newbie Question on Network Config
/etc/network/interfaces or, alternatively you can install etherconf. 'apt-get install etherconf' this will lead you through a prompted setup. Matt -- -Original Message- From: Alberto Tobias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2003 8:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Debian Newbie Question on Network Config Hi, I relatively new to LInux. The last couple of months I have been dabbling with some distributions, but right now I am staying with Debian. I have however one question. I have troubles with my network card. I can get it up and running ok, using the tulip drivers from scyld.org. I can configure it, add the default routes etc etc. But I have to do this everytime I boot the system, because I don't know where to add the configuration so it is set up right when it boots. Where do I do this? Which startup scripts do I need to change? Thanks in advance, Alberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Newbie Question on Network Config
Alberto Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html ObFormatting: please set your mailer to send plain text only, and wrap lines at 72 characters. I have however one question. I have troubles with my network card. I can get it up and running ok, using the tulip drivers from scyld.org. I can configure it, add the default routes etc etc. But I have to do this everytime I boot the system, because I don't know where to add the configuration so it is set up right when it boots. Where do I do this? Which startup scripts do I need to change? Edit /etc/network/interfaces. There's a man page (interfaces(5)), and a sample file in /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples/network-interfaces.gz. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal. -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
