Re: eth0 "disabled" after upgrade Squeeze to Wheezy
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@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"?
(Did you run "ifup -a" or "ifup eth0" after changing "allow-hotplug" to "auto"?)
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