problem detecting ethernet card

[Siri Amrit Kaur]

On Monday 10 October 2005 07:53 pm Jay kindly wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> > Sooooo, I'm back to manually typing in "modprobe eepro100" then
> > "ifup eth0" after reboots.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Is this a "real" Debian install, or is it Debian-via-some-live-CD
> or something like that? I find it strange that your modules file
> keeps "resetting" itself upon boot. That is the type of behavior I
> have seen with some live CD distributions that have been installed
> to a hard drive.
>
It's Kanotix, which starts as a live-cd, but when it's installed it's 
"supposed" to be real Debian (Sid). 

> You could always do some serious grep-foo through /etc/* and see if
> you can find some obscure config file that is "resetting" things on
> reboot. Aside from that, you can brute-force a way to make this
> work. The beauty of Linux is there is more than one way to do
> anything:
>
> # if [ ! -d /etc/rc.boot ]; then mkdir /etc/rc.boot; fi
> # echo "modprobe eepro100" >> /etc/rc.boot/rc.local
> # echo "ifup eth0" >> /etc/rc.boot/rc.local
> # chmod 755 /etc/rc.boot/rc.local
> # ln -s /etc/rc.boot/rc.local /etc/rc5.d/S99local
>
> This assumes you boot into runlevel 5. You can check with the
> `runlevel` command. If you boot into runlevel 2, for example,
> change "rc5.d" to "rc2.d" in the last line above.
>
> That will make the /etc/rc.boot/rc.local file, populate it with
> your 'modprobe eepro100' and 'ifup eth0' commands, then cause those
> commands to get automatically run as the last item when the system
> boots.

Sounds like it could be a solution. I'll try it tomorrow when I'm not 
so tired.

Thanks to everybody who's sticking with me on this.

Siri Amrit