On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. I have actually had problems mixing auto with network-manager. I would highly recommend using allow-hotplug with it.
