Re: Ethernet and wireless suddenly not working on Etch

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 06/05/2007 04:10 PM, Glen Yu wrote:
> [...]
> It says I'm "connected" but gives me network info of:
>
> Driver: e100
>
> IP 196.254.180.46
> Broadcast addr: 169.254.255.255
> Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
>
>
> All that info doesn't make any scense as I'm connected to a router, so the
> IP should be 192.168.x.x and the subnet mask should be 255.255.255.0 
> instead
> also.
> [...]

Uninstall zeroconf and network-manager if you have them installed. Many 
people say these packages take over their network configurations.