Hi On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2008 22:33, 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. > > I don't know about the GNOME desktop. For systems with static network > configuration (one that doens't change, unlike laptops) it would be > advisable > to use the ifupdown package. Check out the documentation > in /usr/share/doc/ifupdown . > > > > Thanks > > Ed > > Shachar might have a point there. The icon you see in the tray is nm-applet, which talks to the network-manager daemon. Network Manager only takes control of interfaces that are set with allow-hotplug. If your interface was previously set up with auto, Network Manager will ignore it by default. Check your /etc/network/interfaces . My eth0 entry looks like this: allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp If you want Network Manager, your interfaces file should look similar to mine above. Cheers, Cassiano Leal
