[H-GEN] FW: Fedora Core 2 Bug with 3COM NICs
Brendan
bmccarthy at iinet.net.au
Thu Jun 10 23:33:29 EDT 2004
Hi,
How about putting those 3 commands in a script, say /root/localnet, and
putting the following in /etc/rc.local
/root/localnet &
this will cause the script to run in the background, allowing the X
startup to continue as normal.
cheers,
-Brendan
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 12:54, De Crow wrote:
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> 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
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> On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 12:12, De Crow wrote:
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> > ______________________________________________________________________
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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:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
>
> Try putting the commands directly in /etc/rc.local
>
> cheers,
> -Brendan
>
>
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