On 20 Jan 2003, Alan L Tyree wrote: > I'm having trouble with a laptop ethernet hookup. When the machine > boots, it fails to see eth0 but then it seems to configure it later. >
what distribution are you using, I know on my laptop,MDK 8.1 used to bring up eth0 before it existed and then pcmcia would bring it up when it spotted the card, but used to send packets before the link was negotiated with the switch and I still ended up doing it by hand .. Dave. > Unfortunately, it doesnt' then do the right DHCP thing. If I > > # ifconfig eth0 down > # ifconfig eth0 up > # dhclient > > Then it connects to the network the way that it should. Any suggestions? > Any other information that would be helpful? > > Thanks, > Alan > -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / [EMAIL PROTECTED] pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
