[plug] Mandrake 10.1 boot up [failure]

[Carl Gherardi]

> >From: John and Susan Foster writes
> >
> >I have just installed Mandrake 10.1
> >
> >During boot up the line
> >"bringing up ethy0     [failed]"
> >appears.
> >
> >Not quite true - sometimes this item is said to be "[OK]". This difference
> >for no apparent reason.
> >
> >This failure? does not seem to impact on my system.
> >
> >Does anybody know what such a failure might mean and how to fix it?
> 

I'd suggest you are using dhcp from and adsl router, and the failure
is to get an ip address. If you connect to the net via an adsl router,
then the router probably isn't switched on when you start your machine
up.

Carl