Re: Removing KDE messed up the network
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:06:03PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
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> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:59:04 -0400
> Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > OK I re-installed avahi-daemon ( and related dependecies) - the
> > > error messages are gone---and I can bring up eth0 with "ifconfig
> > > eth0 up" but dchp is not running so no network. How do I get it
> > > running ??
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> > Try installing ifplugd, and see if that works. That should
> > automatically configure itself to start when the computer is booting,
> > and it should try to automatically connect you to your wired network.
> > If that doesn't work then you could always try the default networking
> > way (Which I don't have much knowledge on, I'm still new to Debian),
> > and it should configure your network upon boot as well.
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> Michael, see my reply to Andrei. DHCP started running by itself just
> before I was about to re-install it. Alls well that ends well. Thanks
> for the replies and advice.
>
> Cheers
>
> Frank
>
Don't you hate when that happens? I mean, when you ask for help and
then the problem just seems to magically solve itself. It happens to
me all of the time.
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