Re: Network unreachable....
Thus spake Andy Laurence:
> Hi all,
>
> More problems with my first Linux box (something tells me I should have
> tried Mandrake to get going). After getting Perl, PHP, Apache and ProFTPd
> running, I thought all was well. Unfortunately, the network has failed for
> no apparent reason. I realised I couldn't FTP to i, so I tried to ping the
> gateway. This resulted in 'network unreachable', so I looked at ifconfig -
> loopback (127.0.0.1) was there, but no eth0.
>
> I checked /etc/network/interfaces which showed eth0 to be correctly setup.
> I then ran ifdown followed by ifup. Again, no change. I tried a reboot in
> vain, but nothing. Is there something else I can try? I don't know where
> drivers are kept or how to re-install them (what I'd do in an MS OS). TIA
>
try ifconfig eth0 up - that ought to at least give you error messages, and
point you in the right direction. On the other hand, maybe it'll just work.
Good luck,
Steve
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