--- Steve Kleene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Etch machine at home is connected to a DSL > service via a Netgear hub > (router) at home. Sometime in the last two days, > the machine lost its > network connection to the outside world. It seems > to be a software problem. > It had been fine since I built it in January. > > Here's what I know: > > 1. If I boot from the XP partition, I have full > internet service anywhere I > try. So the hardware seems OK. There is only > one NIC. > 2. Running Etch, I can ping the router (192.168.0.1) > and check its software > configuration in iceweasel. The router > configuration is the same as it's > always been. It shows that the router has > received an IP address > (10.something) from the ISP. > 3. I cannot ping or otherwise reach any site past > the router by name or by IP > address. If I try, it times out. > 4. Rebooting doesn't help. > 5. The output of "ifconfig -a" looks normal. It > shows eth0 on 192.168.0.4, > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST. I can post the > whole output if necessary. > 6. I haven't done any upgrades with apt since five > days ago, which is clearly > before the problem started. > 7. Nothing jumps out at me from dmesg or > /var/log/messages. > 8. I found the iceweasel cache files from my last > successful browsing. Then > I used find to list every file on the system that > had been modified since > then. Again, I didn't recognize anything scary. > > I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to continue > chasing this down. It may > go slowly, since the problem is at home but my only > connection now is at > work. > > Thanks. > > i had a similar problem here, i run my internet through a cable connection, and had mysteriously lost the ability to connect to the internet. Probably a completely diffrent cause but i would check dbus i have found that it wants to shut itself off and ignores me everytime that i tell it to start running on startup (which i have set the last several times that i have booted up)
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