eth0 won't come up at bootup

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 1 May 2002, Jay Nugent wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, i'll check on that and get back to you.  This laptop is at home at
the moment.

>
>    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...

I dunno, i don't mind PCMCIA stuff.  Its always worked just fine for me on
x86 architecture.  Now on Macs, it was a completely different story.  The
thing is, any time something gets built in on a laptop, it ends up being
some crappy hack that requires a windoze-only driver.  the winmodems are a
prime example.

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