Re: persistent interface

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ucsc.edu>]

* Frans Pop (aragorn@tiscali.nl) wrote:
  |>  On Friday 11 June 2004 20:08, Jim McCloskey wrote:
  |>  > I've since tried putting:
  |>  >
  |>  >    install eth0 /bin/true
  |>  >
  |>  > in /etc/modprobe.conf, but that didn't solve the problem either,
  |>  
  |>  You should never directly edit /etc/modprobe.conf (2.5 & 2.6 kernels) or
  |>  /etc/modules.conf (2.4 kernels) on a Debian system. Both are managed by
  |>  update-modules and generated from the contents of the /etc/modprobe.d/ and
  |>  /etc/modutils/ directories respectively.

Sorry, I was speaking loosely. I in fact added the line to
/etc/modprobe.d/aliases and then ran update-modules. I should have
been more accurate. Thank you for your help,

Jim