On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 02:08:10PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > Starting last week the PC Ethernet connection is sometimes not made at > bootup or is occasionally lost. When this happens the only way I have found > to re-establish the connection is to turn the router off and on again. > > The system is Debian Stretch. I run apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade > occasionally and this problem may have started after such an upgrade. > > I use to be very familiar with setting /etc/network/interfaces for eth0 as > either a static or dhcp connection and using ifconfig, ifdown eth0 and ifup > eth0 but overtime this became unnecessary as the system automatically made > the ethernet connection. Now with Stretch and the dist-upgrades all this has > changed. Ifconfig now shows the connection as epn3s0 and Wicd Network > Manager has been installed. > > When the Ethernet connection is lost Wicd cannot restore it. The Ethernet > cable connection light on so the wired connection is not lost. Still the > only way I have found to restore the system connection to turn off and > restart the router. > > Clearly I am very out of date with system changes and need to catch up. Any > suggestions as to where to start? > >
Log or it didn't happen. -H -- Henning Follmann | hfollm...@itcfollmann.com
