Re: Can't connect to internet with new kernel
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 04:47:20PM -0400, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote:
>
> First, the presumption is that this is not a PCMCIA interface.
>
Yes.
> Second, it might help to see /etc/network/interfaces
>
OK. Here it is:
# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
# The loopback interface
# automatically added when upgrading
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
> Third, I assume dhcp-client is installed
>
It is.
brahman:~# dpkg -s dhcp-client
Package: dhcp-client
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 351
Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
Source: dhcp
Version: 2.0pl5-11
Replaces: dhcp-client-beta
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
Conflicts: dhcp-client-beta, dhcpcd
Conffiles:
/etc/dhclient-script 413817ae1d37992ccaf40da683c190fe
/etc/dhclient.conf 10830c7543724cfd36f10dd87a5f98eb
Description: DHCP Client
This is a split off from the dhcp package and contains the DHCP client
tools.
.
Cable modem users likely need this or another dhcp client to successfully
connect to the network.
.
Documentation (apart from manpages) can be found in the dhcp package.
> TO help debug, as root manually issue the command
> dhclient
>
> Then post the output of /sbin/ifconfig
>
> and go to /var/log and grep for dhclient (to find errors posted to log
> files), that is
>
> grep dhclient /var/log/*
>
Well, what can I say, it is now working. Am just surprised. But, I will
keep the thread safe so that if I get into trouble again, I will come
back to trouble you all ;-)
Regards,
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Sridhar M.A. mas at uomphysics dot net
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