Netgear WG511 not coming up during boot but comes up OK with ifup after boot.

floydigus · 04-29-2005, 03:43 AM

Hi, I'm a newb Fedora Core 3 user.

I've successfully got the Netgear WG511 to work during normal operation (using ifup eth0 or by using the network hardware dialogue) but when I reboot, eth0 is not brought up. The error I get is below

Code:

Apr 29 19:23:37 media portmap: portmap startup succeeded
Apr 29 19:23:34 media ifup: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory 
Apr 29 19:23:34 media ifup: Failed to bring up eth0. 
Apr 29 19:23:34 media network: Bringing up interface eth0:  failed

If I then try "ifup eth0", it works, and gives the message

Code:

RTNETLINK answers: File exists

Can anyone suggest what's going wrong?

Any help much appreciated!

bigearsbilly · 04-29-2005, 05:58 AM

you DHCP?

My suse was like that. I got bored and went to
static IP address.

floydigus · 04-29-2005, 06:06 AM

No, I'm already using a static IP address.

floydigus · 05-01-2005, 03:21 AM

Is this startup stuff controlled by a script? Which one? Perhaps its using a different command from ifup.