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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-05-17 23:18:54 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-05-17 23:18:54 +0200
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doc: Document 'ifconfig eno1 up' before running 'dhclient'.
Reported by Scott McDonough <smcdonough1@gmail.com>
in <http://bugs.gnu.org/20582>.

* doc/guix.texi (System Installation): Suggested setting the interface
  up before running 'dhclient'.
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@@ -3896,9 +3896,9 @@ To install the system, you would:
 @enumerate
 
 @item
-Configure the network, by running @command{dhclient eno1} (to get an
-automatically assigned IP address from the wired network interface
-controller@footnote{
+Configure the network, by running @command{ifconfig eno1 up && dhclient
+eno1} (to get an automatically assigned IP address from the wired
+network interface controller@footnote{
 @c http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c#n20
 The name @code{eno1} is for the first on-board Ethernet controller.  The
 interface name for an Ethernet controller that is in the first slot of