Thanks, Andreas. Alas the problem is still alive but here are some details from doing
networking restart in /etc/init.d/ : wassern:/etc/init.d# ./networking restart Reconfiguring network interfaces...ifconfig: can not resolve `down': Host name lookup failure cat: /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid: No such file or directory ifconfig: can not resolve `down': Host name lookup failure ifconfig: only one address allowed for interface `lo' Usage: ifconfig [OPTION]... [SYSTEM OPTION]... Try `ifconfig --help' for more information. Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved. Please contribute if you find this software useful. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html ppp0: unknown hardware address type 512 sl0: unknown hardware address type 256 ifconfig: can not resolve `up': Host name lookup failure ppp0: unknown hardware address type 512 sl0: unknown hardware address type 256 Bind socket to interface: No such device exiting. done. The configuration in /etc/network/ and / or that in /etc/init.d/networking is faulty, as I can access the hardware flawlessly from another linux installation on another hard drive of the same system. The strange thing for me is that ifconfig is seeking hosts called 'up' and 'down'. How can I force apt-get to reinstall the original networking configuration files in /etc ? Which package is appropriate? Best regards, Lux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
