The second beep might be your card, or the cardmgr daemon,
shutting down. Try unplugging the card and plugging it back it. When
I do that, I hear a beep on the unplug, a beep on the plug and a beep
when it's all up. How's that for tech support! ;)
--c
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:55:41AM -0400, Bart Szyszka wrote:
> > Here's what happens when I boot in right now. When I boot in, ifconfig
> > shows eth0 and lo, but no IP address in eth0. After running "dhcpcd eth0"
> > ifconfig shows an IP!!! But when I run apt-get update, the thing fails (I
> > probably waited too long) and when I ran ifconfig again, eth0 was gone
> > completely. Running dhcpcd again didn't help. eth0 was still gone. The trick
> > right now seems to be to keep eth0 with an IP address. I need/want to be
> > using dhcpcd. That's what has always ran for this RoadRunner connection.
>
> I just wanted to get you guys know that I've been able to confirm this
> connection
> dropping. I booted into Debian. ifconfig gave me eth0 and lo, but no IP. I ran
> dhcpcd eth0 and then apt-get update started connecting. I managed to do that
> and do a dist-upgrade to get the latest version of stable. Then I tried
> editing
> /etc/apt/sources.list to change it to unstable and by the time I did that,
> the next apt-get update couldn't connect. ifconfig showed that eth0 was gone.
> I
> did get a beef (it was a different kind of beep) after the dist-upgrade and
> before
> the next apt-get update. That must have signaled that the connection was
> dropped.
> Any ideas? Again, in WindowsMillenium, this connection runs fine.
>
> - Bart
>
>
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