On Wednesday 20 August 2008 23:53, Ed Sutter wrote: > My goal is to have the debian-based system start up with Ethernet > enabled immediately (I would have thought that would be the standard > way it would boot up). I don't want to have to log into my console > and click something to start up Ethernet. My typical usage of > this system is to ssh into it from another machine, that won't > necessarily be local to my debian machine's console. This all works > fine, except that I have to log into the console the first time after > bootup to enable ethernet through that icon I mentioned earlier. > > I assumed that the ifup/ifdown stuff discussed in the "man interfaces" > was referring to some call to ifup that was being done during > system startup somewhere; hence, the reason for my reboot. > > See what I mean?
So, as I said, you'd want networking configured with ifupdown. The documentation is good for that, so you should not have a problem if you know a little how networking works. If you know less than little, you might have to do some reading. Perhaps TLDP will have some reading material. > > Shachar Or wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 August 2008 23:29, Ed Sutter wrote: > >> Thanks for the responses! > >> > >> My /etc/network/interfaces file already has the following: > >> > # The loopback network interface > >> > auto lo > >> > iface lo inet loopback > >> > > >> > # The primary network interface > >> > allow-hotplug eth0 > >> > iface eth0 inet dhcp > >> > > >> > auto eth0 > >> > >> I commented out the "auto eth0" line and rebooted. > > > > Don't reboot for network configuration... > > > >> No change. > > > > What is the change you're looking for? > > > >> Then I put "auto eth0" back in and commented out "allow-hotplug eth0". > >> Same thing. > >> > >> Any other thoughts? > > > > Did you read the whole documentation and understand how the ifupdown > > thing works? > > > > Also, 'man ifconfig' to see how to check the status of your interfaces. > > > >> Ed > >> > >> Shachar Or wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 20 August 2008 22:46, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > >>>> Ed Sutter wrote: > >>>>> Hi, > >>>>> I have Debian 4.0 on a machine now for 2 days. > >>>>> Thanks to this list, my screen resolution problem is > >>>>> resolved. Next (and hopefully last) problem is that > >>>>> each time I boot the system I have to manually enable > >>>>> my network connection. When Gnome starts up, I see in > >>>>> the top of the screen a small ethernet cable icon with > >>>>> a big NOT sign (red circle with a slash > >>>>> through it) over top of it. I right-click on that and > >>>>> a pull-down menu allows me to enable my wired network. > >>>>> Then everything is fine. > >>>>> > >>>>> How can I fix this so that the network just comes up automatically? > >>>>> Couldn't find anything on this in the archives or in the GUI. > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks > >>>>> Ed > >>>> > >>>> Hi: > >>>> You should have a files /etc/network/interfaces > >>>> > >>>> which should have something like: > >>>> > >>>> auto lo > >>>> iface lo inet loopback > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> allow-hotplug eth0 > >>>> > >>>> iface eth0 inet dhcp > >>>> > >>>> auto eth0 > >>> > >>> There's no point in having both allow-hotplug and auto. > >>> > >>>> ***** > >>>> > >>>> try it with and without the auto eth0. I am assuming the eth0 is your > >>>> wired network: it may be eth1, or eth3 for you. I am also assuming you > >>>> are using dhcp. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> man interfaces will give you more information. > >>>> > >>>> Sebastian Canagaratna -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
