On Friday 15 November 2013 15:55:59 Lisi Reisz wrote: > Thanks, Tom. :-) > > On Friday 15 November 2013 15:29:00 Tom H wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Lisi Reisz > > <lisi.re...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > I have just upgraded a client's computer to Wheezy. It > > > appeared to go well and there was certainly an internet > > > connection: it would not have been able to upgrade otherwise! > > > > > > Now there is none. I have checked /etc/network/interfaces and > > > changed "allow-hotplug" to "auto", just for something to try. > > > :-( It made no difference. I pinged the gateway, largely so > > > that I could report that I had done so. I got the error > > > message "Network is unreachable". > > > > > > KControl tells me that eth0 is "disabled". How and why is it > > > disabled? More importantly, **how do I enable it?** > > > > Has eth0 been renamed? What's the output of "ip a"? > > # ifup -a > ifup: failed to open statefile /run/network/ifstate: No such file > or directory > > I misread at first - but "ifup a" produces the same result. > > > (Did you run "ifup -a" or "ifup eth0" after changing > > "allow-hotplug" to "auto"?) > > Yes - and have restarted several times now. :-( > > "ifconfig -a" shows eth0 and lo, neither of which has an IP.
# mkdir /run/network # ifup lo lo now has an IP address. eth0 is still "unknown interface" :-( Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201311151613.23228.lisi.re...@gmail.com
