USB Networking

[Tony Berth]

Indeed that was the problem. 'allow-hotplug' instead of 'auto' is the
solution! PLEASE correct the WIKI asap!

Thanks for your prompt support

Cheers

Tony

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:13 PM, joezeewails <joezeewails at yahoo.de> wrote:

> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >
> > That's probably not right.  You probably want to try "allow-hotplug
> > ubs0" instead.  "auto" means to do it at boot time and it may just fail
> > if (for some reason) the usb0 interface is not yet created.
> >
> >
> >         Stefan
> >
> I could confirm this.
> It doesn't work with "auto usb0" with "allow-hotplug usb0" it works just
> fine.
> Every time I plug the Freerunner in my debian etch it brings the
> interface up.
> I use the version from the wiki with a extra freerunner script.
>
> My entry in /etc/network/interfaces:
>
> #freerunner
> allow-hotplug usb0
> iface usb0 inet static
> address 192.168.0.200
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> post-up /etc/network/freerunner start
> pre-down /etc/network/freerunner stop
>
>
>
> Someone should correct the wiki, should I?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Joe
>
>
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