I believe that to have the interfaces brought up when you boot, you need to
have a line in the interfaces file such as
auto lo eth0
You should be able to bring up eth0 after boot (if you don't have them
automatically up) by the command
ifup eth0
scott
Matt wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> I am somewhat new to Linux and I am having a problem getting a 3Com 905
> initialized 'properly' at bootup on a Debian potato distro.
> I keep getting a message like this:
> eth0: using NWAY device table, not 8
> eth0: using NWAY device table, not 8
> eth0: using NWAY device table, not 8
>
> I have the card setup for DHCP as per the /etc/network/interfaces file:
> iface inet eth0 dhcp
>
> I can setup the card statically after boot using the following comands,
> though:
> # ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.25 netmask 255.255.255.0
> # route add default gw 192.168.1.1
>
> After I manually setup the card, network connectivity works fine. I suspect
> the problem is with ipchains, but I am not really sure. A friend of mine
> pointed me to your list; I am hoping someone can help. I have attached 3
> files -- /etc/init.d/networking, /etc/network/interfaces and the last boot
> from a 2.4.6 kernel I recently compiled. Note: The problem started before I
> compiled the new kernel.
>
> One other thing, my optical mouse is intializing properly at boot, but I
> can't seem to get it to work with gpm or X. I have a /dev/usbmouse block?
> device file, but it doesn't appear to work. Any ideas?
> Sorry for the lengthy email.
>
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