Re: eth0 is missing from some ThizLinux files. Cannot detect LAN card 8139

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From: Ingo Pakleppa
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 01:16

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On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:40:12 +0000, kerernn wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:51:49 GMT, "Ingo Pakleppa"
> <ingo-immigration@kkeane.com> wrote:
> 
>>alias eth0 rtl8139
>>
>>Then reboot.
> 
> 
> reboot?   hehe.  you must be primarlily a Windows user.
> 
> Rebooting is never required except for a few things such as updating the
> new kernel

Actually, you are right. I said to reboot because the original poster
described himself as a newbie.

modprobe -a, followed by ifup eth0 should do the same thing. It's just
more complicated to explain and easier to mess up and think the
modifications were incorrect when you really just made a mistake entering
the commands. Rebooting reduces the number of variables.

Incidentally, you can do almost everything (at least, comparable actions)
in Windows (the NT family, not the DOS-based family) without rebooting,
too. Windows merely tells you to reboot after installing to make it easier
and because of a maze of dependencies. For that matter, I had a client
once who insisted that my installation program reboot when it had
completed - even though it was completely unnecessary. He actually logged
a bug "install program does not reboot".

Today, I would be happy to have a client in the first place ;-) I'm
looking for Linux work. But that's kind of off-topic.

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