On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 14:01, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > > 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 ..
RH8 - and it does sound like the same problem. During boot it reports "failed" when it tries to bring up the eth0; pcmcia starts later and eth0 is up when I first log in - just not with a network IP address. I'm using this machine for my wife's email, so I really need the thing to start properly. > > 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 > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
