Re: eth0 "disabled" after upgrade Squeeze to Wheezy
On Friday 15 November 2013 15:55:59 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Thanks, Tom. :-)
>
> On Friday 15 November 2013 15:29:00 Tom H wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Lisi Reisz
> > <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> > > I have just upgraded a client's computer to Wheezy. It
> > > appeared to go well and there was certainly an internet
> > > connection: it would not have been able to upgrade otherwise!
> > >
> > > Now there is none. I have checked /etc/network/interfaces and
> > > changed "allow-hotplug" to "auto", just for something to try.
> > > :-( It made no difference. I pinged the gateway, largely so
> > > that I could report that I had done so. I got the error
> > > message "Network is unreachable".
> > >
> > > KControl tells me that eth0 is "disabled". How and why is it
> > > disabled? More importantly, **how do I enable it?**
> >
> > Has eth0 been renamed? What's the output of "ip a"?
>
> # ifup -a
> ifup: failed to open statefile /run/network/ifstate: No such file
> or directory
>
> I misread at first - but "ifup a" produces the same result.
>
> > (Did you run "ifup -a" or "ifup eth0" after changing
> > "allow-hotplug" to "auto"?)
>
> Yes - and have restarted several times now. :-(
>
> "ifconfig -a" shows eth0 and lo, neither of which has an IP.
# mkdir /run/network
# ifup lo
lo now has an IP address.
eth0 is still "unknown interface" :-(
Lisi
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