On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 06:27, James Gregory wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 21:57, 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.
Sounds like it is worth a look - many thanks, > > I haven't played much with it, but my laptop purports to have recently > installed a thing called ifplugd which detects when I plug in an > ethernet cable and runs dhcpd when I do. It's all ready to go in the > initscripts package currently in mandrake cooker. > > Anyway, it might be a solution - ifplugd would probe the device, which > would get the module loaded (assuming your modules.conf is configured > and so forth) and once it figured out it was plugged into something it > would set up the interface with dhcp. > > HTH > > James. > > -- > 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
