Re: Wired network unavailable

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 18:21 -0400, Darren Albers wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/9/07, Jeroen van de Nieuwenhof <lists vandenieuwenhof nl> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         I use NetworkManager (on Ubuntu Feisty) to connect to wireless
>         networks
>         and everything runs pretty fine.
>         
>         However, when i plug in a ethernet cable in my laptop, the
>         wired network
>         is always unavailable in NetworkManager. If i restart my
>         system the 
>         wired connection is available though. What can i do to solve
>         this?
>         
>         This is my /etc/network/interfaces:
>         
>         auto lo
>         iface lo inet loopback
>         
>         auto eth0 #wired interface
>         auto eth1 #wireless interface 
>         
>         Regards,
>         
>         Jeroen
> 
> 
> What type of NIC is it?  I think a few NIC cards don't properly
> support link detection, though I think this is really rare now.

A few NE2000 compatible ones don't AFAIK, and a lot of PCMCIA pcnet32
ones don't either.  But those are usually older cards.

Dan

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