Re: NIC interface config at boot

[Mark Copper <m.copper@wayne.edu>]

> Yes, it's a PCMCIA NIC.

> Make sure that you don't have an "auto" entry for the interface in
/etc/network/interfaces.  If you do, the system is trying to bring up the
interface before the pcmcia services are started and as a result the
interface is in a misconfigured state when pcmcia starts and tries to
bring it up.  Thus, you have to take it down and back up to correct
things.  If you simply remove the "auto" entry, the interface will be
brought up when pcmcia starts.

-- 
Jamin W. Collins

Yes, that works.  Since you pointed out that the problem might lie with
the PCMCIA card, I made sure the /etc/pcmcia/network.opts was configured
and that worked also (even with "auto eth0" still in
/etc/network/interfaces.

Seems like a bit of a gottcha in "man interfaces"--on top of the
incompletely documented "mapping" stanzas.

Thanks.

Mark Copper