On Thu February 14 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Its also very confusing to someone who has used Linux for years. What > the heck is Network tools, Network settings. Icon? > > The network is configured in /etc/network/interfaces. Plain old text > file.
I have a similar problem. I am running Debian Etch: # uname -a Linux paulandcilla 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux with the latest updates. Now ( as I recently found out) when I reboot after.. kernel update, whatever update/problem, my network doesn't come back up. I issue the command line ifdown eth0, ifup eth0 and it comes back up. I can't remember exactly, but ifconfig ( before the network is working) shows either just lo, or eth0 has the 169 address. How would I troubleshoot that? If I am not home, and the power goes out, when the system comes back up, my wife would not be able to get the network working... -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459
