Re: eth0 "disabled" after upgrade Squeeze to Wheezy

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

Thanks, Andrei,

On Friday 15 November 2013 16:15:20 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 15 nov 13, 15:06:59, Lisi Reisz 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?**
>
> How is the network configuration handled? Network Manager,
> ifupdown, etc.?

/etc/network/interfaces file and ifupdown, etc..  (Network Manager and 
I are not on speaking terms.)

Lisi