Re: no network connection

[Ed Sutter <esutter@alcatel-lucent.com>]

Thanks for the responses!
My /etc/network/interfaces file already has the following:

> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> # The primary network interface
> allow-hotplug eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp

> auto eth0

I commented out the "auto eth0" line and rebooted.
No change.
Then I put "auto eth0" back in and commented out "allow-hotplug eth0".
Same thing.

Any other thoughts?
Ed

Shachar Or wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2008 22:46, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
> > Ed Sutter wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have Debian 4.0 on a machine now for 2 days.
> > > Thanks to this list, my screen resolution problem is
> > > resolved.  Next (and hopefully last) problem is that
> > > each time I boot the system I have to manually enable
> > > my network connection.  When Gnome starts up, I see in
> > > the top of the screen a small ethernet cable icon with
> > > a big NOT sign  (red circle with a slash
> > > through it) over top of it.  I right-click on that and
> > > a pull-down menu allows me to enable my wired network.
> > > Then everything is fine.
> > >
> > > How can I fix this so that the network just comes up automatically?
> > > Couldn't find anything on this in the archives or in the GUI.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Ed
> > Hi:
> >     You should have a files /etc/network/interfaces
> >
> > which should have something like:
> >
> > auto lo
> > iface lo inet loopback
> >
> >
> > allow-hotplug eth0
> >
> > iface eth0 inet dhcp
> >
> > auto eth0
>
> There's no point in having both allow-hotplug and auto.
> > *****
> >
> > try it with and without the auto eth0. I am assuming the eth0 is your
> > wired network: it may be eth1, or eth3 for you. I am also assuming you
> > are using dhcp.
> >
> >
> > man interfaces will give you more information.
> >
> > Sebastian Canagaratna