Comment 45 for bug 19740

(In reply to comment #43)
> hmm, i wonder why nobody notices the absence of the "auto eth0" line in
> /etc/network/interfaces ... surely its not dhclients job to generate this file
> correctly... i had some people reporting the same problem in #edubuntu while
> using vmware... but rather saw it as a vmware bug...
>
There's not supposed to be an "auto" line ...

auto means that the interface is bought up by S:S40networking

There's supposed to be something that looks like this:

        mapping hotplug
         script grep
         map eth0

Which means that the interface is bought up on insertion, or by S:S40hotplug