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

[De Crow]

I've actually tried that /etc/rc.local it had issues, like at one stage it
stopped me from getting into X, nfi how it did that, but all I can say if
thankyou for Interactive Startup :)

Crowy

PS I'm new to Linux, but not new to computers. I have been a unix user, but
not admin.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brendan [mailto:bmccarthy at iinet.net.au] 
Sent: Friday, 11 June 2004 12:24 PM
To: De Crow
Cc: General at lists.humbug.org.au
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] FW: Fedora Core 2 Bug with 3COM NICs

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 12:12, De Crow wrote:
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> 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:
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> ifconfig eth0 down
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> ifconfig eth0 up
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> dhclient
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> then logs out.
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> I'm just wondering if anyone out there has a better work around, or
> fix?

Try putting the commands directly in /etc/rc.local

cheers,
-Brendan