auto-boot network card

[John Dangler]

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 09:11 -0500, James Black wrote:
> Hi Kuijper,
> i dont have this issue with my ubuntu. it works fine. It's not good to
> generalize your issue and assume it's an universal Ubuntu issue. it's
> not polite.
> 
> Bram Kuijper wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > when I start up my Ubuntu Gutsy box, I always have to manually
> reboot my
> > network card, using sudo ifdown [cardname]; sudo ifup [cardname], in
> > order to get it to work.
> >
> > My question is: why do I always have to start my network card
> manually?
> > Wouldn't it be logical if ubuntu just executes this ifdown/ifup
> > automatically upon booting?
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Bram
> >
> > PS 1: My dmesg is giving the following message on boot:
> > [   35.977149] e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network
> > Connection
> > [   54.980261] e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps
> Full
> > Duplex, Flow Control: RX
> > [   54.980265] e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: 10/100 speed: disabling
> TSO
> >
> >
> >
> > PS 2: My eth0 settings are simple, nothing more than:
> >
> > auto lo
> > iface lo inet loopback
> > iface eth0 inet dhcp
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> 
It would have been nice if you could have just answered the question.
Alter your interfaces file to this...

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

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