FIXED Re: eth0 won't come up at bootup

[Net Llama!]

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.

Bingo, that was it.  Thanks!


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