My network card was activating at boot until I added 'mount -t nfs ipaddress:/home/niverson /home/niverson' to my rc.local file. After I did that, the card stopped activating on boot up. I have gone through the networking GUI to select the activate at boot up box and it fails to do so every reboot. The network card works, because I can manually activate the card from the netwoking GUI. What do I have to add to which file to get my LAN card to activate at boot?

Thanks,
Nate Iverson.

You should put that mount into the /etc/fstab file. That ensures that all is executed in the right order.

Add a line like

ipaddress:/home/niverson /home/niverson nfs rw 0 0

to the file. That should do the trick.

Hope it helps,
mlp

I already removed the mount from rc.local. I just want the LAN card to activate on boot-up, so I don't have to manually activate the card everytime I power on the machine. any ideas?

Thanks,
nate

Sound like a really odd problem.

-Do you only have one nic card in this machine ?

-Do you have an entry in your modules.conf file that says alias eth0 eepro100 ?

-Did you make any changes to inittab ?

-check and see if inittab has been change to put you in run level 2 instead of 3 or 5 ?

-IF you cat dmesg or messages do you find any error messages in there ?

-If you run a chkconfig is networking enabled on the appropriate run levels?

-How are you manually enabling this card?

-The machine has an onboard NIC that I have disabled and wasn't using before.

- I will check the modules.conf.

- I didn't do anything to change the run level in inittab.

- I starts up into the GUI, so i know it isn't run level 3. I haven't used run level 2 before-----doesn't that boot to command line also.

- I see errors for services that require network access, ntpd and nfs deamon failed.

- I will try chkconfig

- manually enable the card using the networking configuration GUI and clicking on activate. I could also do a 'ifconfig' with the appropriate parameters to activate the NIC.

Crap, networking was turned off for runlevel 5. Thank you very much.

Nate