Okay. I have a regular ethernet card built into my laptop's motherboard. I use Openbox for my desktop, whilst my wife uses Gnome. I use powersaved for power management, which in turn uses acpid.
What i have done so far is make changes to the powersaved config scripts. I have instructed it to restart networking, acpid, and the firewall to no avail (before discovering that eth0 itself no longer existed in /dev). I then tried unloading and re-loading the module that my ethernet driver uses (natsemi), but that doesn't help. Then i tried manually restarting several of the init.d scripts that seemed promising in an effort to bring up the eth0 device (no luck). I've done alot of searching on the internet besides that and really didn't find anything useful. It seems to me that something in the boot process checks for the existence of that device (/dev/eth0) and creates it, but i can't figure out what that is. There must be some way to tell the kernel (or something) to create it! I just don't even know where to look though. Does MAKEDEV still work? My only thought is to manually create the device from the init.d/networking script if it doesn't exist, but that seems like a kludge and fragile besides. Basically i'm wondering if anybody knows of the proper way to do this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
