Network card configuration in Debian

[dan@george]

So I'm running Debian with kernel version 2.4.24-1-686, and I can get my D-Link Ethernet card up and running by typing the following commands as root:

$ modprobe 8139too
$ ifup eth0

But whenever I restart my machine, the device disappears, including all its settings in iptables, and I have to type those commands again. Anyone familiar with this behavior and know how to fix it?

[sarumont]

You can add that module to /etc/modules.autoload.d to get it loaded every boot. Then add the Debian eth0 script to the boot runlevel...hopefully a Debian guru will be able to help you there.

You can make a shell script with your iptables statements and have that run at boot, too. Hope that helps.

[dan@george]

Thanks; I basically know how to do that, but which runlevel should I put the script in? My default runlevel is 2. I assume it should be an S99 script to make sure everything it needs is already loaded, correct?