Re: Network - interfaces problem
You're not alone; have a look at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=159803
> 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:
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Sorry for such a lengthy post. If anyone can point me to proper tweaks and
> fixes I'd truly appreciate it.
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> Nick Sequino
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