On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 11:49 +1000, Gerry Butler wrote: > The onboard ethernet adaptor is now working. > > /etc/network/interfaces contained no entry for eth0. I don't know why. > > When I started the squeeze upgrade the onboard adaptor at eth0 was > the only adaptor. > > I don't know the state of /etc/network/interfaces at the completion of > the kernel and udev upgrade. > > After installing another ethernet adaptor and re-running the squeeze > upgrade from the beginning (after restoring dd partition images), > /etc/network/interfaces contained only an entry for eth1. > > I have now added an entry for eth0. I don't understand why you say that eth0 was broken, if it wasn't configured before. Are you saying that the upgrade *removed* an entry from /etc/network/interfaces? Are you using a network interface control program other than ifupdown, e.g. Network Manager or wicd? Ben.
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