Re: [TCLUG:21091] Problem: No networking at boot time

[John Miller <johndmiller@mn.mediaone.net>]

I am having the same problem.  I am running red hat and have the alias line 
in the conf.modules.

When my system boots I get this message on the eth0 step:
"Bringing up interface eth0 Delaying eth0 initialization.
                                                         [FAILED]"
if I do a "ifconfig eth0", it comes back with:
"eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found"
Next I have to "insmod tulip"

Then I "startx" and open a terminal window and type "netcfg", click on 
"interfaces", "eth0".  The protocol for this is "dhcp" and is set to be 
brought up on boot.  The netcfg shows that it is inactive so I click 
"activate".  I see in the terminal window a message saying "Determining IP 
information for eth0..." this is followed by a ctrl-c to end the program 
because "quit" won't work.  Now I am able to connect to the Internet from 
my linux box through my windows box.
Further information:
eth0 gets it's ip address from my windows machine (shared Internet access 
is set up on it).

Question? What is wrong and how do I fix it.

Thank you

John Miller

At 07:42 PM 9/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
> > 2> Put the module name (3c509) in /etc/modules
> > (In debian, if you want a module to load at boot time, this is
> > what you do. If it's not the same in RedHat, somebody speak up. I keep my
> > nic and sound drivers in there, and a few others the I should just
> > compile in since I never remove them from my kernel. =)
>
>Redhat uses plain old dynamic module loading. If you're using
>linuxconfig it should plop the proper 'alias eth0 whatever' line in
>conf.modules.
>
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