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Kevind71

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Registered: 2008-02-11

Posts: 10

[SOLVED] Network not enabled at boot

I am sure I am missing something simple, but I can't figure it out.  I have been playing with Arch for a few days, and have reinstalled a couple times.  Each time my network worked fine on first boot.  I just reinstalled, planning on making this my last time.  After booting, my network was not working.  If I run 'dhcpcd eth0' from the command line, it starts working.

I have checked rc.conf and hosts to make sure they look correct.  I have restarted a couple of time.  I didn't change anything in the daemons section of rc.conf, and it looks the same as before.  I did a 'dmesg | grep eth0' and got back information about the adapter, showing the mac address.

Since I can start the network manually it is not a big deal, but before I install anything else I would like to figure out why my network is not automatically started like it was before.  I don't know where else to look.  Can anybody give me some tips on where my problem might be?

Thanks

Last edited by Kevind71 (2008-02-11 20:04:29)

Misfit138

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Registered: 2006-11-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Network not enabled at boot

Did you configure 'eth0="dhcp" in rc.conf?

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Kevind71

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Registered: 2008-02-11

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] Network not enabled at boot

OK, now I feel stupid...

Strange though, on my other installs that was already set without my intervention since I used the ftp install.

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: [SOLVED] Network not enabled at boot

OK, now I feel stupid...

Strange though, on my other installs that was already set without my intervention since I used the ftp install.

exactly, ftp requires an active internet connection so the dhcp is set as a default setting.