Mandrake 10 - Network won't start at boot
 

Hi, I've just installed Mandrake 10. A few minor hitches, but all is well - except for the fact that my network won't start when I boot. If I restart /etc/init.d/network, it says OK, but nothing happens. ifconfig reveals that only the lo (loopback) device is present. To get it to start, I have to run Hardrake's "config tool" on my network card, change the first option from modem to "ADSL", and then click OK for the rest of the questions (since it remembers the values correctly for the rest). Once done, the network is up. How can I begin to debug this? What are the network files involved at bootup?

Thanks!

This sounds more like your NIC module is not loading at startup. Can you post the resulps of lsmod and lspci?

lsmod:

Module Size Used by
sg 38044 0
st 38616 0
sr_mod 17028 0
sd_mod 16832 0
scsi_mod 114648 4 sg,st,sr_mod,sd_mod
nfsd 173152 8
exportfs 5920 1 nfsd
lp 12200 2
parport_pc 32832 1
parport 38952 2 lp,parport_pc
md5 3872 1
ipv6 232352 8
snd-seq-midi 8160 0
snd-opl3-synth 15140 0
snd-seq-instr 8160 1 snd-opl3-synth
snd-seq-midi-emul 7776 1 snd-opl3-synth
snd-ainstr-fm 2624 1 snd-opl3-synth
snd-seq-oss 31232 0
snd-seq-midi-event 7552 2 snd-seq-midi,snd-seq-oss
snd-seq 51024 8 snd-seq-midi,snd-opl3-synth,snd-seq-instr,snd-seq-midi-emul,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event
snd-pcm-oss 51812 0
snd-mixer-oss 17952 1 snd-pcm-oss
snd-es1938 20644 0
snd-pcm 93156 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-es1938
snd-opl3-lib 9984 2 snd-opl3-synth,snd-es1938
snd-timer 24484 3 snd-seq,snd-pcm,snd-opl3-lib
snd-hwdep 8928 1 snd-opl3-lib
gameport 4480 1 snd-es1938
snd-page-alloc 11972 2 snd-es1938,snd-pcm
snd-mpu401-uart 7072 1 snd-es1938
snd-rawmidi 23616 2 snd-seq-midi,snd-mpu401-uart
snd-seq-device 8008 6 snd-seq-midi,snd-opl3-synth,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-opl3-lib,snd-rawmidi
snd 52484 16 snd-seq-midi,snd-opl3-synth,snd-seq-instr,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-es1938,snd-pcm,snd-opl3-lib,snd-timer,snd-hwdep,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device
soundcore 9248 1 snd
af_packet 20520 0
raw 7616 1
ide-floppy 18752 0
ide-tape 34864 0
ide-cd 40548 0
cdrom 37184 2 sr_mod,ide-cd
floppy 59444 0
ipt_TOS 2240 12
ipt_REJECT 6464 4
ipt_LOG 5312 6
ipt_state 1728 12
ipt_multiport 1856 0
ipt_conntrack 2304 0
iptable_filter 2624 1
iptable_mangle 2624 1
iptable_nat 23116 0
ip_conntrack 31152 3 ipt_state,ipt_conntrack,iptable_nat
ip_tables 16704 9 ipt_TOS,ipt_REJECT,ipt_LOG,ipt_state,ipt_multiport,ipt_conntrack,iptable_filter,iptable_mangle,iptab le_nat
nls_iso8859-1 3904 2
nls_cp850 4736 2
vfat 13760 2
fat 45120 1 vfat
supermount 37876 1
sis-agp 5568 1
agpgart 31016 1 sis-agp
joydev 10240 0
evdev 9504 0
tsdev 7168 0
usbmouse 5216 0
hid 53312 0
usblp 12288 0
ohci-hcd 18692 0
usbcore 99132 6 usbmouse,hid,usblp,ohci-hcd
rtc 11576 0
ext3 110408 3
jbd 54328 1 ext3

lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 530 Host (rev 02)
00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev b1)
00:01.1 Class ff00: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] ACPI
00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 11)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3cSOHO100-TX Hurricane (rev 30)
00:04.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics 56k WinModem (rev 01)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: VLSI Technology Inc QSound ThunderBird PCI Audio (rev 19)
00:05.1 Input device controller: VLSI Technology Inc QSound ThunderBird PCI Audio Gameport (rev 19)
00:05.2 Serial controller: VLSI Technology Inc QSound ThunderBird PCI Audio Support Registers (rev 19)
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS530 3D PCI/AGP (rev a2)


Thanks

looks like the right module for your card is the 3c59x module and I don't see it in the list, so perhaps a will suffice to get the card started. Let me know

That works well, thanks. What is the cleanest way to make this permanent?

Fire up a text editor as root and edit your /etc/modprobe.preload file by putting that line in. Enter just the module name and you should have networking on bootup. Someone else had the same problem at almost the exact time as you did. This would be done in /etc/modules.conf if you were running a 2.4 kernel. You'll see this when you read the comments in the file. Surf away!