Re: Re-configuring after an install

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Chris" == Chris Owen <Chris.Owen@iname.com> writes:

    Chris> sean finney wrote:
    >> 
    >> auto eth0
    >> iface eth0 inet dhcp 

    Chris> Thanks, I tried this, and then a screen comes up next time
    Chris> I re-boot asking me to configure my network.  After that,
    Chris> however, it bombs out with a "device not found" error,
    Chris> which is quite understandable as it is trying to do all
    Chris> this at a point in the boot sequence where PCMCIA card
    Chris> services has not yet been started, so eth0 doesn't exist
    Chris> yet...

I did not follow this thread carefully enough, and I can't find the
references, but if eth0 is a PCMCIA card, do not use 'auto eth0' and
you should fix that specific problem (i.e. eth0 not existing when
the network is started via /etc/rcN.d/).

/Shyamal