Re: Ethernet connection weirdly not working mornings

[John Magolske <listmail@b79.net>]

Thanks for the replies all. I feel the issue must have to do with how
this particular ThinkPad is set up, as my other Debian laptop has
no problem connecting via ethernet. And now the ethernet-challenged
machine is not connecting in the evening either (well, this evening
anyhow...), only the wifi connection works ATM.

* Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> [110629 10:29]:
> On Tue 28 Jun 2011 at 22:03:30 -0700, John Magolske wrote:
> 
> >   allow-hotplug eth0
> >   iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> This should bring up the interface and configure it when the machine is
> booted.
> 
> >   iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> >   pre-up wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -Dwext -B -c /home/john/.wpa_supplicant.conf
> >   post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant
> 
> This should not bring up the interface when the machine is booted.
> 
> What does happen on booting? 

Neither interface is brought up.

> The output of the command 'ifconfig -a' would be useful to see

% ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr **:**:**:**:**:**
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:35600 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:23582 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:41162613 (39.2 MiB)  TX bytes:1674330 (1.5 MiB)
          Interrupt:20 Memory:f2600000-f2620000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1394 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1394 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:96020 (93.7 KiB)  TX bytes:96020 (93.7 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr **:**:**:**:**:**
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6194 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6526 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3346109 (3.1 MiB)  TX bytes:726467 (709.4 KiB)

> which card is in the machine. 'lspci' for that.

% lspci
[...]
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300

Regards,

John

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