No network!! - HELP!
I had to reboot my box after a hard lock up today and I find that all of a
sudden, I have NO network!!! It doesn't seem to matter what I do or try, the
network (not even the loopback) will configure!
I've been doing dist-upgrades every so often. Has something changed to screw
things up that I missed?
I have an /etc/network/interfaces file that has the following:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eht0
iface eht0 inet static
address 192.168.1.25
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.254
If I comment out the "auto" lines I get nothing from ifup/ifdown/ifconfig or
a networking restart. If I keep them I get this when I restart the network:
Reconfiguring network interfaced: SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor
lo: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor
lo: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor
SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor
eth0: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor
SIOCSIFNETMASK: Bad file descriptor
eth0: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor
done
My /etc/network/ifstate file says
lo=lo
eth0=eth0
I noticed that my ethernet card module (3c59x.o) was not loading at boot
even though I have a line in /etc/modules.conf that says: alias eth0 3c59x
(this file created with update-modules). So I insmod it manually and still
have problems.
My /etc/modules file loads other modules such as agpgart, dri drivers, usb
joystick and such.
I'm using kernel 2.4.1 quite successfully until now. It must have been the
last dist-upgrade I did that changed something (a few days ago maybe) but I
haven't a clue what!
What gives, what the heck is going on? How do I fix it? I don¹t want to have
to reinstall and then upgrade all over again! I just went through this
painful process.
Help!
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Carl B. Constantine (carl@os-s.com) Phone: 250.953.2650
Open Source Solutions Inc. Fax: 250.953.2659
4252 Commerce Circle, Victoria, BC. V8Z 4M2 http://www.os-s.com/
Up the line - out the server- past the firewall - nothing but Net!!
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