Dapper on HP nx5000 laptop - ethernet not activate

[Bonilla, Alejandro]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 15:21 +1100, Burn Alting wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 18:57 -0600, Bonilla, Alejandro wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 11:06 +1100, Burn Alting wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have a HP (Compqa) NX5000 laptop on which I have Dapper running. It is
> > > connected to my wired network at home.
> > > 
> > > Sometimes when I boot it, the default ethernet device (eth0) is not
> > > activated. This never occurred under Hoary. It is a simple thing to
> > > activate the interface, but surely it should come up automatically.
> > > 
> > > Before submitting a bug, what should I check or can I provide to help
> > > diagnose this problem - perhaps I've not set something up correctly.
> > 
> > What driver does it use?
> 
> It's b44 (Broadcom BCM4401-B0)
> 
> > If you set the driver under /etc/modules does this work on boot?
> 
> Doesn't help. Just rebooted with b44 in /etc/modules and nothing. Had to
> activate by hand.
> 
> Is there some configuration file that says, activate eth0 on boot?

Please run the command "activate on boot eth0"!
What do you mean with Activate?

.Alejandro

> 
> > -Dapper is not yet out-
> 
> A company I work for want's to base a soon to be released product on
> Dapper as it will be supported for 5 years. So, to catch any problems
> well in advance, I'm using Dapper.
> 
> > 
> > .Alejandro
> > 
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > Burn
> > > 
> > > 
> 
>