Mates,
Strange happenings. After configuring hylafax and dialin services, I
shut the machine down for a reboot. On reboot, the NIC will *not* start. The
error is: Waiting on mandatory services. It fails saying no config file
found. WTF?? (hylafax and ppp and mgetty should have nothing to do with my
eth0 config and should not have affected anything)
After much pain, I discovery that the problem file in
/etc/sysconfig/network is:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 290 2005-09-18 21:02
ifcfg-eth-id-00:04:5a:87:c8:43
*Now* this is the file that the system (presumably) has been bringing the
NIC up with for a long time. A little more investigation:
nemesis:/etc/sysconfig/network # ifstatus eth0
eth0 device: Linksys NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100
(rev 11)
eth0 configuration: eth-id-00:4c:69:6e:75:79
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
eth0 is up
2: eth0: