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

[Graham, Alan A.]

I hadn't put in the auto ethx line, but I expected the alias ethx to mean
that an ifup subsequent to boot would work.  It doesn't, it gives a
non-existing device error.

I had put the two alias lines into /etc/modutils, which meant that a
modprobe -a | grep eth gave
alias eth0 off
alias eth1 tulip
alias eth2 eepro100

but eth1 and 2 wouldn't work (ie, ifconfig wouldn't bring the niterface up)
until after I did a modprobe.

Don't worry about this further, as I'll try it this evening, and if I still
have problems I'll be able to post actual comands and actual results.  At
the moment I'm relying on my meory of messages I was getting at the
weekend...  and my memory's notoriously unreliable.

Thanks

Ala

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Craig Ringer [SMTP:craig at postnewspapers.com.au]
> Sent:	Tuesday, 26 November 2002 14:37
> To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject:	Re: [plug] Installing new hardware the 'Debian' way.
> 
> > 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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