Re: eth0: unknown interface
> Well, what you said about the modules.conf would only prevent the computer
> from loading the module for the network card when booting. By loading in
> this module the interface (eth0, or if there are more network cards eth1,
> eth2 etc.) is known, later during boot the init.d scripts are being called
> (when switching to runlevel 2, as specified in /etc/rc.2) and the
> /etc/init.d/network script is also called, that script configures the
> network and uses the interface eth0 to do so. That's where the error
> occurs, the script tries to bring eth0 up (using ifconfig) where the
> interface does not exist.
So I think there are only two ways to stop an unnecessary network card
form starting up at bootup.
1) Start the installation program from CD and remove the unwanted modul
2) Deactivate any unwanted startup job in "/etc/init.d/" and you can
later activate it if you want. There are several files in know which
must be stoped from starting network jobs.
/etc/init.d/netstd_init
/etc/init.d/netstd_misc
/etc/init.d/network
Am I right?
Uwe
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