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Hello everyone, I found this mailing list this morning and looked through
the March 2005 entries but didn't find an answer to my problem.
Please forgive me if I'm in the wrong place. Will try to be brief ...
here goes: Have a standalone PC at home I've set up as a dual
boot with Grub to Sarge and Windows XP. I installed Sarge in Nov-Dec last
year with no problems. Everything fine with the Debian sarge side until I
went in as root last weekend and ran an apt-get update which did its thing and
offered no error messages or warnings as it finished. I've done
that many times before! Have to work to a Microsoft shop - nobody knows what
Debian means here. Cannot get back to my home PC until late at night or
early a.m. Can't remote to it. The problem is I can't get my eth0 (3Com509c card) to
come up suddenly now. No pipe on PPPOE works now - no internet.
I get that inexplicable SIOCADDRT error with "network unreachable" ...
I can eliminate that message by going into the /etc/network/interfaces file and
removing some of the lines under auto eth0 inet static but still no
connection. It's a DSL modem -- it's just a loopback
setup with a single card. Ifconfig reports no activity over eth0 but ok
over lo. Pppd claims it cannot find a password in eth0?? The
card works fine on the Windows side, as it had been on Debian before I ran that
last apt-get update. "Ppp-on-boot is deprecated" -- remember
seeing something similar to that initially reported. I tried to using a "mapping" line to a
get-mac-address script by placing a line in /etc/network/interfaces but that
didn't work either. It's almost 10 a.m. on the east coast now. Happy
to answer anyone's questions concerning this tonight or early a.m.
tomorrow. Guess you can see my lack of Unix/Linux expertise - finally,
I'd love to find out how to pause the verbose messages that rapidly
scroll down the screen when Linux boots up. Remember Red Hat 7.2 being a
big more [ok] forgiving - you could read most of those. Sorry for such a lengthy post. If anyone can point me
to proper tweaks and fixes I'd truly appreciate it. Nick Sequino Donnelley Marketing InfoUSA 1-201-476-2027 |