Subject: Re: lost my ethernet access
From: Paul Schinder (schinder@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Feb 06 2000 - 19:33:20 MST
At 9:06 PM -0500 2/6/00, Josh Forman wrote:
>OK, I seem to have lost my ability to use ethernet under Linux. After
>having someone walk me thru using a DHCPd client, it still doesn't work. we
>edited ifdown and ifup, as well as resolv.conf and found that nothing
>worked. I've narrowed the errors down to :
>Bringing up interface eth0 [FAILED]
>
>there's one other error, but i'm not sure what it is. (I think it's the one
>about INET services, but not sure if the "FAILED" is on that line or the
>next - or prior)
>
>This is on YDL CS 1.1, with kernel 2.2.1(something)
>
>After rebooting and waiting 5 min, i do ifconfig and get this:
>
>
>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:C5:47:6A:71
> BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0
>
>lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> LOOPBACK MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0
>
>ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
> POINTOPOINT NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0
>
>
>Before all this, i could use ethernet, but some stuff didn't seem to work
>properly. I hope i've given enough info.
What are you using, dhcpcd or pump? A lot of us have found that pump
doesn't work, and you might find the same.
dhcpcd can be run from the command line as root, and you might want
to turn on the -d flag to see if you can spot what's going wrong.
>
>
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