On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday 15 November 2013 15:55:59 Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On Friday 15 November 2013 15:29:00 Tom H wrote: >>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Lisi Reisz >>> <lisi.re...@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" :-(
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