RE: No network!! - HELP!
Check if you have net-tools 58.1! Downgrade to 57.1 should fix it.
I am assuming you are running Sid.
Bao
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl B. Constantine [mailto:carl@os-s.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 2:45 PM
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: 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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>
> Up the line - out the server- past the firewall - nothing but Net!!
>
>
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