On Wednesday 20 August 2008 22:46, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Ed Sutter wrote: > > Hi, > > I have Debian 4.0 on a machine now for 2 days. > > Thanks to this list, my screen resolution problem is > > resolved. Next (and hopefully last) problem is that > > each time I boot the system I have to manually enable > > my network connection. When Gnome starts up, I see in > > the top of the screen a small ethernet cable icon with > > a big NOT sign (red circle with a slash > > through it) over top of it. I right-click on that and > > a pull-down menu allows me to enable my wired network. > > Then everything is fine. > > > > How can I fix this so that the network just comes up automatically? > > Couldn't find anything on this in the archives or in the GUI. > > > > Thanks > > Ed > > Hi: > You should have a files /etc/network/interfaces > > which should have something like: > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > > allow-hotplug eth0 > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > auto eth0
There's no point in having both allow-hotplug and auto. > > > ***** > > try it with and without the auto eth0. I am assuming the eth0 is your > wired network: it may be eth1, or eth3 for you. I am also assuming you > are using dhcp. > > > man interfaces will give you more information. > > Sebastian Canagaratna -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
