"Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote: > > I have the following /etc/network/interfaces: > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.2.6 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network 192.168.2.0 > broadcast 192.168.2.255 > gateway 192.168.2.1 > > At startup, I get the following message: > > Configuring network interfaces: /etc/network/interfaces: option without > interface > > And, of course, eth0 isn't configured. Can anyone point out what I'm > missing here? > -- > steve
The module for the NIC seems like the most likely candidate. dmesg | grep eth0 should return something,if not type modconf and try to insert the proper module for your NIC.