[H-GEN] FW: Fedora Core 2 Bug with 3COM NICs

David de Groot david-humbug at viking.org.au
Thu Jun 10 22:22:40 EDT 2004


On 11/06/2004, at 12:12 PM, De Crow wrote:

> Ok I don’t know how many of you have come across this yet, but in 
> Fedora Core 2, 3COM NICs don’t initialize properly on boot, now what I 
> intend to do is create a user that auto logs in on boot, and runs:
>
> ifconfig eth0 down
>
> ifconfig eth0 up
>
> dhclient
>
> then logs out.
>
> I’m just wondering if anyone out there has a better work around, or 
> fix?

Why don't you just put that in an init script appropriately numbered to 
run last ?

Dave





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