On Friday 15 November 2013 17:05:04 Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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?**
> > # ifup -a > > ifup: failed to open statefile /run/network/ifstate: No such file > > or directory > > "ifup -a" should bring up all interfaces marked "auto" (or > "allow-auto") in "/etc/network/interfaces". (Is the latter OK?) > > The "networking" init script must (I haven't checked it) create > "/run/network". etc. > > Change the shebang of "/etc/init.d/networking" to "#!/bin/sh -ex" > and run "/etc/init.d/networking stop" then "/etc/init.d/networking > start". Done. #ping 192.168.0.1 connect: Network is unreachable :-( 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/201311151738.20248.lisi.re...@gmail.com
