Re: Lateloading NIC and mobo recommendations

From: Chris Friesen <cbf123_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Tue Jan 02 2007 - 12:52:25 CST

Les Klassen Hamm wrote:

> Disabling the onboard NIC meant that the new one was eth0, but it
> wouldn't start at bootup, even though the network scripts try to start
> and set up eth0 at boot. After the computer has booted, I can just do a
> simple
> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.145 up
> /sbin/route add default gw 192.168.0.42
> and all is well.

> Eventually
> I just put those two lines, plus my smb mounts in a file and have it be
> the last thing that runs in rc5.d, and then everything is peachy. But
> it's a kludge. Can someone tell me why it won't work earlier?

Are you using built-in net drivers or modules? If modules, when are
they loaded at startup?

Chris
Received on Tue Jan 2 12:53:00 2007

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