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

[Alan Graham]

I found that I did have the auto ethx entries in already.  After a bit
of messing around, I decided to put the two entries into /etc/modules. 
And Voila!  It all works.  I'm still confused about the alias entries in
/etc/modutils/aliases, especially about the system entered "alias eth0
off".  Do aliases not work under Debian in the same way as other
distro's?

Thanks Anthony and Craig.


On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 14:36, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> -- 
> Craig Ringer
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