USB Networking

Pander pander at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Nov 6 09:54:12 CET 2008


Any ideas regarding (semi)automatic configuration via
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/289548 are also welcome.

On Thu, November 6, 2008 09:28, Tony Berth wrote:
> 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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