[plug] Installing new hardware the 'Debian' way.

[Craig Ringer]

> Thanks guys.  Craig, this is the approach that I originally took.  It didn't
> work.  I see the alias entries, but the interface won't come up until I
> manually do a "modprobe...  etc".  I put it down to something I don't get
> about modules and debian.  Again, the line "alias eth0 off" in the file is
> something I don't understand at all.

Hmm. That "auto eth2" etc is important, it tells the system to "ifup 
eth2" at boot. Also check /etc/modules.conf (auto-generated from 
/etc/modutils/* by update-modules) to see that the "alias ethx xxx" 
lines are there.

Are there any error messages on boot about the network, modprobe errors, 
etc?

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