eth0 not staying configured - Solved!

[Jim Herrmann]

Just thought I would let the list know the solution to my problem.  I 
did a lsmod to find out that the module that was being loaded when the 
network was working was sis900, and in /etc/module.conf it had "alias 
eth0 tulip".  I changed this line to read "alias eth0 sis900" and the 
module loads correctly on boot.  Problem fixed.

Thanks so much to everyone who offered up a suggestion.  As always, an 
education.

Peace,
Jim Herrmann

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
>