This one time, at band camp, Eric Richardson said: > Hi, > > I seem to have everything working okay but can't seem to get eth0 to > come up automatically on boot. Everything worked fine with 2.2.20 kernel > but now with 2.4.18-k6 it won't start without running ifup eth0. I'd > really like to get this working the Debian way without hacks or at least > understand what is going on. > > Here is relevant dmesg, module, and /etc/network/interfaces info. I did > play around with the interfaces file, looked at the man pages etc. with > no luck. Any help is appreciated. <snip> > # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) > > # The loopback interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian > installation > iface eth0 inet dhcp Needs a line 'auto eth0' in there to make the interface come up automatically. Steve -- I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. -- Groucho Marx
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