Re: Bringing up eth0 NIC without logging in
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:12:48PM +0100, marc wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have a couple of Debian installs on my laptop, on one the eth0 NIC
> comes up during the boot process, but on the other it doesn't, although
> it's identified and there in dmesg. I'm using the same interfaces file
> for both, but clearly I'm missing something - that I probably did in the
> midst of time and have now forgotten.
>
> /etc/network/interfaces says
>
> auto eth0 inet dhcp
>
> After boot, ifconfig shows no eth0, but "ifup eth0" says "eth0 already
> configured". There is no way out at this point.
>
> When I "ifdown eth0" followed "ifup eth0" (or dhclient eth0) all is
> sweet.
>
> What am I missing?
>
Is the module for the nic listed in /etc/modules? Maybe dhclient runs before
the module is loaded. Is the nic built in or on a card?
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