Networking :: eth0 not up in wireless setup



Have DSL-N running fine on an old Toshiba laptop. Cisco Aironet 350 wifi card is detected fine and I can see the wireless script running during boot to set the WEP key and so on. After boot I have no connectivity (static IP run with nodhcp in lilo). Running the netcardconfig tool sorts everything out although I just accept the defaults that are already configured. On closer inspection a simple "ifup eth0" restores full connectivity.

Any idea why this isn't up automatically and how I can configure it so it is?

Thanks very much.
Quote (steford @ Oct. 21 2007,05:26)
Have DSL-N running fine on an old Toshiba laptop. Cisco Aironet 350 wifi card is detected fine and I can see the wireless script running during boot to set the WEP key and so on. After boot I have no connectivity (static IP run with nodhcp in lilo). Running the netcardconfig tool sorts everything out although I just accept the defaults that are already configured. On closer inspection a simple "ifup eth0" restores full connectivity.

Any idea why this isn't up automatically and how I can configure it so it is?

Thanks very much.

You can try 'ifconfig eth0 up' , which  sets up the interface at boot time.
What's in your wireless script?  You could just append "ifup eth0" to it.

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You can try 'ifconfig eth0 up' , which  sets up the interface at boot time.
I think that would do the same thing...
I was thinking placing 'ifconfig eth0 up' in bootlocal.sh might automate it, so a script wouldn't be necessary.
Thanks for the help so far guys.

Changed the last line of my bootlocal.sh to ifconfig eth0 up. I can run bootlocal.sh from the cmd line and all is fine.

When the laptop boots I see the cardmgr config doing the wireless setup and an "ifconfig eth0 up" also. bootlocal.sh then definitely runs as the keyboard mapping is output BUT no wireless. Running it manually sorts everything out.

Really stuck as to what's going on.

Any further thoughts?

Thanks a lot.
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