Hello all,

I have Suse Linux kernel 2.6.26

Anywho, when I do the following:

1. "shutdown -r now"
2. Wait for the system to come up
3. Do "ifconfig"

and I just see "lo"

But

When I do "/etc/init.d/network restart", I see
"lo" ** AND ** "eth0"

How can I fix the startup so that "eth0" is automatically loaded?

TIA

Do you see eth0 if you just cold-boot the system? If it doesn't show up at all, unless you do a network restart, check your services to see if you've got networking to auto-start at boot time. If not, the restart you're doing will try to stop networking (which isn't running), then start it (which will bring up the interface(s)).

Hello and thank you for responding

Below you said:

What do you mean by "check to your services to see if you've got networking to auto-start at boot time"?

TIA

You're welcome, we're all here to help each other.

And I meant just that...check to see if you've got networking enabled to start when the system boots, and whether or not the interface is marked to be activated at boot-time.

I'm not in front of my system right now, but if you fire up yast (as root), go into network config. You should see your interface(s) there. Select the one in question, and click EDIT. Somewhere there, you'll see a box/something to indicate "activate this interface at boot time". Make sure it's checked.

Also from Yast, there should be a "services" option. Click it, and see if networking is set to start at boot, or if it's started manually (it'll be fairly obvious when you get in there).

Sorry I can't be more specific, but I'm not looking at my system right now.