Re: Network problem
Thanks for the replies, it's great to get some many so quick, and has
improved my mood no end. I will try to figure things out further and update
y'all on my progress.
John.
In reply to Anthony:
> Have a look in /var/log/messages. Also post output of ifconfig after it
goes down.
Oke.
In reply to Gong:
> Do you use dhclient to get your IP?
Nope. I have a static IP, and input all that info myself.
> Anyway, try "/etc/init.d/networking restart" to restart network
> connection.
Thanks for the tip.
In reply to Joerg:
> Are you sure you have to reboot? Try (as root) instead
> root@box:~# ifdown eth0
> root@box:~# ifup eth0
I'll give it a shot next time it happens.
> Hä? Did you change anything in your installation, or did you only swich
away from KDE2, > or did you upgrade your kernel.
Basically, I did a new install (formatted hard disk etc.) from the Debian CD
to get the 2.4 kernel and I upgraded everything from the unstable
Debian.org apt-get resource.
> Tell us exactly what you did before the problem started occuring.
I can't really remember exactly what I did before the problems started
happening - I haven't had a chance to really use the comp over the last few
weeks.
> do root@box:~# tail -n 30 /var/log/syslog immediately afterwards
Okedokey.
In reply to Paul:
> Does the module insert cleanly?
Yep, everything installed ok (as far as i could see).
> If you type /sbin/ifconfig, does it show information for eth0?
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:D5:AC:00
inet addr:141.44.xxx.xxx Bcast:141.44.xxx.xxx Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:16175 errors:41 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:62
TX packets:1804 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:6
collisions:376 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2420114 (2.3 MiB) TX bytes:283855 (277.2 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000
> If it uses static assignments, did you specify it during the installation
when it asked
for network information?
You mean IP, gateway and DNS numbers etc? - I reckon everything is correct.
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