David Fairey wrote:
If you add "rtl8139" to the end of the "/etc/modules" file it should load the module everytime the machine boots. Then rest of the boot scripts will startup ifconfig and route before samba does.
I have the line options rtl8139 io=0xdc00 irq=10 in etc/modules, is this what you mean? It was put there by modutils when i ran update-modules. That is the only reference to rtl8139 though.
(Assuming you have all the correct entries in /etc/network/interfaces file for eth0).
The only thing i think I may be missing is ONBOOT=YES.....not sure if it is ok juist to plonk that at the end of /etc/network/interfaces for iface eth0 or not?
Earl Brannigan wrote
do you have the modules.conf entries for rtl8139 ? if you have them then whenever networking is brought up modprobe is able to start them.
Shouldn't
the modules reside in /lib/modules/<version>/ ?
Yes, I have just looked and rtl8139.o is present and correct in /lib/modules etc.
The daemons should be started by init. under /etc/init.d/ there should be
a
script for each of the daemons you want started sometime or other. Under /etc/rcN.d/ (where N is the runlevel) there should be a symlink to files
in
the init.d directory. (man init should help).
The daemons start ok, I just need to restart them after entering network information correctly. But I've just gone and looked at init.d and started to vaguely comprehend what is going on there. I could write any small script, (e.g. adding routes and modules if I can't figure it out the "proper" way?), plonk it here and symlink to it then?
Was an X session running at the time ?
This was re. my weird box-locking up. No, I rarely use X on this box. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Thanks! Jen.