eth0 not staying configured

[Matthew Freeland]

I used to use mandrake and had the same network problem that you are.  I 
managed to fix it by writing a script that modprobes the network card driver 
at boot.  Since you say you're pretty dependant on the gui tools, i'll give 
you the commands you need:

touch network_load
echo "modprobe <insert name of your nic driver here>" >> network_load
chmod a+x network_load
cp network_load /etc/init.d/

Now, when you next reboot, it should work.  The tricky part will be finding 
the name of you nic driver.  You might be able to find it by looking through 
your /etc/modules.conf text file or in the /proc/modules text file.  Good 
luck.

On Monday 12 May 2003 11:27 pm, Jim Herrmann wrote:
> I bought my wife a new motherboard for Mother's Day (get it? ;-) ), and
> upgraded her from Mandrake 9.0 to 9.1.  I have everything working fine,
> except that the network doesn't remain configured.  I can configure it
> with the Mandrake tools once it's booted, and everything works great.
> Upon reboot, which my wife does daily as she like to shutdown at night,
> the network configuration is lost again, and I have to go through
> network setup again.
>
> Suggestions on what I should look at and what configuration files might
> be involved that Mandrake is not writing out properly.  Any help would
> be appreciated.  And yes, I know, I'm too damned dependent on those GUI
> tools.  :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
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