Thanks for your prompt response. The line you suggested commenting out happens to have been commented out by default. On Aug 25, 2013 8:45 PM, "Robert Holtzm" <hol...@cox.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 06:27:34PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > Howdy, > > Upon starting my PC, wireless networking was found to be working, but not > > the wired one. > > /var/log/daemon.log says DHCPv4 request timed out. Canceled DHCP > > transaction. > > > > What could be wrong here? > > I had the same problem. The fix was to comment out the last line in > /etc/network/interfaces. Should look like this: > > # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system > # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). > > # The loopback network interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network interface > allow-hotplug eth0 > #iface eth0 inet dhcp > > Note the last line is commented out. > > HTH > > -- > Bob Holtzman > Your mail is being read by tight lipped > NSA agents who fail to see humor in Doctor > Strangelove > Key ID 8D549279 >
