[plug] 2.4 kernel wierdness?

[John Breen]

At 09:16 AM 22/01/2002, you wrote:

yup, it's there.

the default install put it there, and i haven't removed it.  I've got 
around it by building the driver into the kernel (NOT as a module), so it 
just seems the module wasn't being correctly loaded somewhere.


>I upgraded a box and had the same problem. Check out the file 
>/etc/network/interfaces
>and make sure that the following line is before the iface line:
>auto eth0
>or what ever your interface is - when i updated debian, it didn't add the 
>line - and what ever has been updated seems to need it.
>HTH
>
>Justin
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>At 08:44 PM 21/01/02 +0800, you wrote:
>>When the system starts up, I get a message about eth0 device does not 
>>exist, but after boot i can do modprobe 8139too, and the card will 
>>initialise and set up and show up in ifconfig.  I then have to do 
>>everything by hand to get it to appear.
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