Thus spake Andy Laurence: > Hi all, > > More problems with my first Linux box (something tells me I should have > tried Mandrake to get going). After getting Perl, PHP, Apache and ProFTPd > running, I thought all was well. Unfortunately, the network has failed for > no apparent reason. I realised I couldn't FTP to i, so I tried to ping the > gateway. This resulted in 'network unreachable', so I looked at ifconfig - > loopback (127.0.0.1) was there, but no eth0. > > I checked /etc/network/interfaces which showed eth0 to be correctly setup. > I then ran ifdown followed by ifup. Again, no change. I tried a reboot in > vain, but nothing. Is there something else I can try? I don't know where > drivers are kept or how to re-install them (what I'd do in an MS OS). TIA >
try ifconfig eth0 up - that ought to at least give you error messages, and point you in the right direction. On the other hand, maybe it'll just work. Good luck, Steve
