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    I have a system with 2 Intel NICs. I installed RedHat 9 and since this OS is old I have to download the NIC driver from INTEL site and manually loading the NIC driver. After loading the driver, I type modprobe e1000 and it basically works from this point. However, the problem is whenever I rebooted the system and when it come up eth0 & eth1 always indicated as FAIL. From a terminal, I have to type "ifup eth0" everytime there is a reboot.

    Can someone kind enough to show me what need to be done so that I don't have to type "ifup eth0" everytime I give the system a reboot? Please help
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    Dont use RedHat 9! It's seven years old now, and the hardware you're using could well be unsupported or poorly supported by the base distro - and you wont get any updates for it.

    Use a newer distro - download Fedora Core 5 (or 6 if you can now) which is the same line as RH9 (i.e. any documentation that came with your RH9 should still be mostly valid).

    Other alternatives are the very expensive RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.3, or one of their community-supported clones (CentOS, Tao Linux, etc.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by billy6642
    Can someone kind enough to show me what need to be done so that I don't have to type "ifup eth0" everytime I give the system a reboot? Please help
    Did you configure your NIC with:
    Code:
    redhat-config-network
    ?
    Did you check the tab there for your NIC that allows you to bring up Internet at boot?
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    Quote Originally Posted by billy6642
    I have a system with 2 Intel NICs. I installed RedHat 9 and since this OS is old I have to download the NIC driver from INTEL site and manually loading the NIC driver. After loading the driver, I type modprobe e1000 and it basically works from this point. However, the problem is whenever I rebooted the system and when it come up eth0 & eth1 always indicated as FAIL. From a terminal, I have to type "ifup eth0" everytime there is a reboot.

    Can someone kind enough to show me what need to be done so that I don't have to type "ifup eth0" everytime I give the system a reboot? Please help
    I don't exactly remember Redhat 9, because I'm using Debian, but as I remember, the network configuration is at /etc/sysconfig/network, you should edit your configs manually or use 'redhat-config-network'(GUI) or 'netstat'.

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    Thank you all for good advices...
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