On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:37:34AM +0200, David Fuchs wrote: Putting this back on list. > On 5/21/07, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote: > >On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:58:27PM +0200, David Fuchs wrote: > >> hi all, > >> > >> I just installed Etch on a system with 3 network interfaces: eth0, > >> eth1, lo. all network interfaces are configured as auto in > >> /etc/network/interfaces. > >> > >> for some reason, the interfaces all fail to start on boot. I have to > >> manually run ifup -a for them to work. how can I fix this? > > > >Can you please post your /etc/network/interfaces and the output of > >'dmesg | grep eth0' > > # dmesg | grep eth > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x400, xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, IRQ 18 > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type `RTL 8139C` > eth1: VIA Rhine II at 0x18400, xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, IRQ 20 > eth1 MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 01e1 Link 45e1 This looks good, but you could try to have a look through the entire dmesg, maybe you can spot something. > <interfaces> > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > iface eth1 inet static > address 10.0.0.11 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network 10.0.0.0 > broadcast 10.0.0.255 > gateway 10.0.0.111 > dns-nameservers 10.0.0.111 > dns-search domain.com > > auto eth0 > auto eth1 > > </interfaces> Looks ok to me. You could also enable bootlog in /etc/default/bootlogd This will keep the boot messages (which are different then dmesg/syslog) and maybe you can spot something which you are missing at boottime. > >> another nuisance: every 20 minutes, some process prints "-- MARK --" > >> to the console. I've never seen this before on any system - what is > >> this about? > > > >That's strange. I know syslog prints this in /var/log/syslog if there's > >nothing (notable) happening on your computer, but it shouldn't go to the > >console. Did you change anything from the default setup? > > nope. it's a completely pristine installation. Sorry, I'm out of ideas. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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