Is it possible to manually activate an eth0 connection?

[Bas Roufs]

Dear Jack and everybody

Thx. for your feedback. With respect to 'acpi=off', one question remains.

>> > ==Have you tried using acpi=off on your kernel line in your
>> > /boot/grub/menu.lst, as suggested?
>> > What happened?
>> This is still a white area on my map :-).... I did manage to find and
>> to open that file via the terminal command "kdesudo
>> /boot/grub/menu.lst".
>> However, it is not clear to me where exactly in that file I should put
>> the instruction 'acpi=off'. Please, explain!

> You should add this at the end of the options which are passed to the
> kernel at the boot proccess. Your kernels are after the "## ## End
> Default Options ##" line, after that, were configured all items wich
> grub displays on startup, and the options wich is going to be passed to
> the kernel when the kernel boot-up. Probably, the kernel that you uses
> is the first, so add that option at the end of the kernel line of the
> first element, like that:
>
> title           Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-23-generic
> root            (hd0,0)
> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-23-generic
> root=UUID=c7b4265d-4c68-4353-9371-e1dfde56289e ro ACPI=OFF

In the menu.lst file at my laptop, I found a quit similar kernel line,
which ended like this: "ro quiet splash". For the time being, I have
simply 'ro acpi=off' next to 'ro quiet splash'. Is this the right
decision? Or do I need to delete 'ro quiet splash'? Or is there some
other detail I need to do differently?

Respectfully yours,

Bas.


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