eth0 won't come up at bootup

[Jay Nugent]

Greetings,

On Wed, 1 May 2002, Net Llama! wrote:

> I've got a Redhat based laptop that doesn't want to have its PCMCIA NIC
> come up at eth0 at bootup.  Its a static IP on an internal network.  I can
> always bring it up with "ipfup eth0" manually, but it won't come up on its
> own.  I've got "ONBOOT=YES" in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> and the network service is started upon bootup for runlevels 3 and 5 (it
> boots into 5 by default).  So, i'm utterly stumped at why it won't
> cooperate.  I've also got eth0 aliased to the tulip module (the correct
> module for the NIC) in /etc/modules.conf.   Anyone have suggestions or
> ideas?

   I believe you must start all the PCMCIA crap/drivers first before you 
will be able to start eth0.  See what your startup order in in rc3.d or 
rc4.d (whichever applies to your runlevel) and see that PCMCIA is started 
*before* Network.

   It's amazing they just don't build laptops with 10/100BaseT ethernet
interfaces built-in.  Ten bucks worth of parts.  PCMCIA sucks soooo
badly...

      --- Jay
             
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