From: Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Your best bet is to use hotplug, which automatically instantiates drivers for the attached devices at startup. It doesn't change /etc/modules, it just re-detects at every startup. (Ubuntu uses hotplug and udev by default, btw.)
Ok, I have loaded hotplug and and rebooted,
but still the network didn't come up until I did a manual /etc/init.d/networking restart
Hotplug correctly found the network card and loaded all the modules, including one that wouldn't manually load - nice.
lsmod | grep 8139 8139too 20864 0 8139cp 16128 0 mii 4032 2 8139too,8139cp
There is no link to /etc/init.d/networking in /etc/rc5.d, I assume as the network came up previously then it not needed and that something else is not right.
Is the order of hotplug in /etc/rc5.d incorrect? (unlikely) or is there something else missing? (more likely...)
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