Ethernet issues on power failure

[Jamesk5]

I'm currently running Debian Etch (with no GUI) on two boxes and after a power failure the ethernet devices on both machines fail to come back up on the first boot. To solve the problem I have to reboot both machines.
I've given both machines static IPs and I have no trouble with the ethernet devices after the reboot - just on the first boot after the failure.

Anyone got suggestions as to why this might be happening??

Thanks!

[drks]

Hrm... never heard of that, but ACPI might be doing something funky on a proper shutdown. Maybe try disabling ACPI... in the GRUB config, add the following to your kernel line:

pci=noacpi


And reboot. Then maybe force a power failure (unplug it) and see what happens on reboot.